I played a bit more with this. There is no help
file, but many non-programmers should be able
to work out the syntax from the -syntax-
statement a few lines below and a glance at
the code. The compulsory option -statistics()-
may only contain statistics acceptable to
-collapse-, as that is how they are calculated.
-cw- is the corresponding option
of -collapse-. The program uses -outfile-
to export and takes -outfile- options, unless
-outsheet- is specified, in which case
-outsheet- is used and it takes -outsheet-
options.
-by()- is no longer compulsory.
The -total- option applies if you also specified
-by()-, and says "I also want these statistics
for the whole dataset".
This is where I would appreciate volunteer testing
from Unix and Mac users. The -total- option is
implemented in a crude but fairly simple way, by
spitting out a separate temporary file and then
using the operating system to put them together.
I have guessed at a way to do this on Unix and on
Macs, but I need to know whether it works and if
not how to fix it, please.
This program is indicative of what Stata user-programmers
can do with modest effort, and _not_ a really general
program, and _not_ (despite the slightly coy name) a wrapper
for -tabstat-, or an attempt at a full emulation of
-tabstat-.
Example:
sysuse auto, clear
mytabstatexport turn trunk length using mytab.txt, s(mean sd) by(rep78) total
*! NJC 1.1.0 31 March 2006
program mytabstatexport
version 8.2
syntax varlist(numeric) [if] [in] using/ ///
[aweight fweight iweight pweight] ///
, Statistics(str) [ BY(varname) CW OUTSHEET TOTAL * ]
marksample touse
if "`by'" != "" {
markout `touse' `by', strok
local byby "by(`by')"
}
qui count if `touse'
if r(N) == 0 error 2000
local out = cond("`outsheet'" != "", "outsheet", "outfile")
preserve
foreach s of local statistics {
local call "`call'(`s') "
foreach v of local varlist {
local call "`call'`v'`s' = `v' "
}
}
qui collapse `call' if `touse' [`weight' `exp'], `cw' `byby'
if "`by'" == "" {
tempvar by
gen `by' = _n
}
qui reshape long `varlist', i(`by') j(stats) string
if "`byby'" == "" {
drop `by'
}
list, subvarname
`out' using "`using'", `options'
if "`total'" != "" & "`byby'" != "" {
restore
preserve
marksample `touse'
markout `touse' `by', strok
qui collapse `call' if `touse' [`weight' `exp'], `cw'
tempvar tot
gen `tot' = "Total"
char `tot'[varname] `" "'
qui reshape long `varlist', i(`tot') j(stats) string
list, subvarname
tempfile total
qui `out' using `total', `options'
if "`c(os)'" == "Windows" {
shell copy `using' + `total' `using'
}
else shell cat `total' >> `using'
}
end
If "Venable" would please reveal more of his
or her name, I can use that in an Ack't in the
help when it gets written.
Nick
[email protected]
Nick Cox
> Your example command has the form
>
> two or more variables
>
> BY
>
> one or more statistics
>
> BY
>
> categories of a variable.
>
> These requests are, logically, for several matrices,
> not one.
[...]
[posting of rough initial version of mytabstatexport.ado]
Venable
> > I use Stata 8.2 for Windows. I would like to export results from
> > tabstat to .txt files. The format in the Stata Results window, with
> > the statistics "stacked" over each other, is almost perfect (if I
> > could put standard deviations in parentheses, that would be
> perfect),
> > but copying and pasting is time-consuming and could lead to errors,
> > plus it makes replication difficult.
> >
> > The sort of tabstat command I would like to export is
> >
> > tabstat wheat corn barley, stat(mean sd) by(year) save
> >
> > I have tried -statsmat- and -tabstatmat-, but neither seems to work
> > quite right for what I want to do:
> >
> > -statsmat-: using statsmat as a substitute for tabstat is
> problematic,
> > because "by(byvar) is allowed only with a single varname in
> varlist".
> > Furthermore, even when you use just one varname, the different
> > statistics (mean sd in my example) are displayed in columns rather
> > than one beneath the other (as in tabstat).
> >
> > -tabstatmat-: this seems to have similar issues - I get a
> > "conformability error" with multiple varnames in the varlist; with
> > just one varname in the varlist, the statistics are returned in
> > separate columns rather than one under the other (this
> occurs whether
> > or not I specify columns(variables) in the tabstat command)
> >
> > I have also tried the -tablemat- command but this allows only
> > one statistic.
> >
> > The closest thing for what I would like to do seems to be
> -latabstat-,
> > which exports beautifully to LaTeX tables - is there
> something similar
> > for text files?
> >
> > Does anyone have any advice? I apologize if this has been discussed
> > before - I did a quick search of the Statalist archives but did not
> > find anything addressing these points. Please let me know if I have
> > overlooked something.
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