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Hi,

I would like to contract my workfile and exclude all obsid>4928616. I entered the following statement in the Wokfile Contract option, but it does not have any effect.
Copy and pasting the data into a new page is not an option since its too many observations to be stored in the memory.

What happens when you write the following into the command line and run? You seem to have ~5 million observations, whereas EViews allows 4 million per series by default. So, if you have not changed the default settings (Options/General Options), then your series might not have those observations at all.

What happens when you write the following into the command line and run?

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pagecontract if @obsid<4928617

You seem to have ~5 million observations, whereas EViews allows 4 million per series by default. So, if you have not changed the default settings (Options/General Options), then your series might not have those observations at all.

That did not work either.

I have already changed to the maximum allowance, I think that Eviews gave a warning when the ceiling was hit.


But thanks for the thought and input.

obsid refers to the "time" dimension. Do you have more than 4,982,617 observations per cross-section. If you don't, then contracting based on obsid will do nothing.

obsid refers to the "time" dimension. Do you have more than 4,982,617 observations per cross-section. If you don't, then contracting based on obsid will do nothing.

I've got a daily date range from 1995 - 2015 with 1020 cross section units, with 4948020 observations (unique in time and cross section) in total.

When I open up a series, right click and select ObsID, it is shown next to the cross section unit and its date. This is a list that in my workfile looks to go from 1 to 4948020. Hence I thought that @obsid refered to a unique observation specified in both cross section and time dimension.

All ObsID>4928616 are part of cross section units that I want to remove from my workfile.

Which would be the proper approach to do this?

Base it on the cross-section number.

If you want to remove all cross-sections over 500, then use:

Base it on the cross-section number.

If you want to remove all cross-sections over 500, then use:

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pagecontract if @crossid<500

Thanks Gareth, that worked.