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Hi,

I am sorry to keep posting I really don't seem to understand how MLwiN works.

My problem is that I have a dataset from Stata with 32,265 observations and 138 variables when i try to read it into MLwiN I just get the error message "Not enough columns to load data(RSTA)" I know that someone has posted this before but they were using runmlwin though Stata and it doesn't seem to be the same when I am using MLwiN.

I have tried changing the worksheet configurations using Options/Worksheet and making the worksheet size 1 million and the number of columns to the max of 10000 in case this would help and neither seemed to at all, the same error message keeps coming up. I dont really understand because the maximum number of variables is 150 and I have below this.

Thank you in advance.

I'm not sure what is going on here as MLwiN should be able to handle this many variables without having to change the default settings. If you saved the Stata file from MLwiN then it's possible that it has more than 138 variables, as MLwiN will save the empty columns too when exporting to Stata. If it is possible to send me the problematic file, or one with a similar structure that also gives them same problem then I will look into this further.

Hi, I was emailing you the data file. However before I did I saved it in a different name and tried opening it again. For some reason it now opens in MLwiN so I'm not sure what was going wrong but at least I can open it now.