Dear researchers,
I have a huge .dta file (9gb), I want to open it in my laptop( 8GB ram, 64-system) using R because I’m not familiar with stata, how can I open it to start the analysis? Is there any code to avoid the memory limit error?
I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Back in the day of Fortran IV we used to process large data sets piece by piece. Can you do that here? Another possibility is apply for a Grant at a supercomputer center. We have one here in Ohio. Good luck to your project. I have attached information on Ohio supercomputer center. Best wishes, David Booth
You should explore the readstata13 package in R to read the .dta file. Afterwards you can use the dplyr or data.table package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data.table/vignettes/datatable-intro.html) for the wrangling phase.
Dear Louai Alsaloumi
Generally, To read a Stata file in R, use the read dta() function from the haven library. Study df - read dta('study data. dta') will, for example, open the Stata file "study data. dta" and build a data frame object.
Kind Regards
Qamar Ul Islam
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