Managing Your Files and Workspace

Abstract

Stata and R both have commands that replicate many of your computer’s operating system functions such as listing names of objects, deleting them, setting search paths, and so on. Learning how to use these commands is especially important because, like Stata, R stores its data in your computer’s limited random access memory. You need to make the most of your computer’s memory when handling large data sets or when a command is highly iterative.