Re: [Gretl-devel] Possible bug importing SAS XPORT files
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Logan Kelly wrote:
Ok. Just in case it helps. My computer has 8gb of ram.
So has my home machine. With some changes just committed to CVS
gretl will read the SAS file OK (or at least I think so, though I
don't know exactly what the data should look like).
Allin
-------- Original message --------
From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>
Date: 10/24/2013 7:59 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: Gretl development <gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] Possible bug importing SAS XPORT files
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Logan Kelly wrote:
> I am using the GRETL 1.9.13 64 bit build date 2013-10-24 on WIN 7
> 64 bit. I am trying to import a SAS XPORT file. It is big, so I
> only include a link here
>
>
http://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/others/banking/financial_institu...
>
> However, Gretl crashes when I try to import the XPORT file through
> the GUI.
I suspect it's being killed by the OS for consuming too much RAM.
There's a lot of data there (380 MB) but it ought to be readable
given a few GB of RAM. Our heuristic for determining the number of
observations (something that is not at all obvious in an XPORT file)
is in this case grossly overstating the number, leading gretl to
request an exorbitant amount of memory. I'll look into it.