It crashes on input with a text file, before giving me
any error message.
The dataset doesn't have that many observations (~200), but it does
have several hundred variables.
Strom
At 7:42 PM -0500 1/30/03, Gary King wrote:
I know people who have used over a million
observations and so I don't
think that's an issue. Does it crash on input? or on running? What's
the error message when you try it with a text file?
Gary
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Strom C. Thacker wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply, Gary. I'm using Stata/SE 7.0. I've
> tried reading in text files, but Amelia crashes when I do that. At
> first I thought it might be due to the size of the file I was trying
> to read in (773K), so I tried it with a much smaller one (18K) and it
> did the same thing.
>
> I've tried text files with various extensions, including .raw, .out,
> .txt, .asc and .csv, with similar results.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Strom
>
>
> At 6:57 PM -0500 1/30/03, Gary King wrote:
> >I can't say much about running this on a Mac, but you might have a
> >different version of stata file than we support. The easiest way around
> >the problem is to write out an ascii (text) data set from stata and read
> >it into Amelia. We wrote the text input and so we know it works; for
> >other data files, we use a public domain data transfer package.
> >Gary
> >
> > : Gary King, King(a)Harvard.Edu
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> > : Harvard U, Cambridge, MA 02138 eFax (928) 832-7022 :
> >
> >On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Strom C. Thacker wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm having some problems reading data into Amelia. When I try to
> >> read a Stata file (.dta), it tells me:
> >>
> >> Error: Program was unable to read file contents
> >> Please check instructions to make sure input is of correct type
> >>
> >> When I try to read it in text format, it just shuts down/crashes (the
> >> program, not the operating system).
> >>
> >> I'm a Mac user, so I'm trying this on Virtual PC (though
I've tried
> >> it on a PC down the hall and had the same problems).
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Strom
> > >
>