Re: st: RE: outsheet or outfile display

[Jeph Herrin <jherrin@flyingbuttress.net>]

You may simply want to -log- your output (specify -text- option),
-list- the variables the way you want, and the use the log file.
A text editor (or even Word) will let you remove the header and
footer of the log file.

hth,
Jeph

Michael McCulloch wrote:
> Thank you very much Nick. I didn't mean to disparage Stata or
> integrators with my question.
> I'm sorry, but at this point in my own progress on the Stata learning
> curve, I haven't yet learned programming and am working with do files
> using basic commands and their options.
>
> The results I would like to achieve is a table separated not by every N
> lines, but rather by specific values of a variable, such as in this
> case, month/year:
>
> .list  ini dxage sex race datetx, noobs sepby(datetx)
> ------------------------------------------------
> AD 63 male white November, 1993
> CV 69 male white November, 1993
> JC 39 male white November, 1993
> LF 46 male white November, 1993
> MF 55 male white November, 1993
> NL 63 male white November, 1993
> VJ 68 male asian November, 1993
> ------------------------------------------------
> HM 59 male white December, 1993
> IT 47 male white December, 1993
> MO 76 male white December, 1993
> WC 74 male white December, 1993
> ------------------------------------------------
> AW 61 male white January, 1994
> +------------------------------------------------+
>
>
>
>
> At 10:09 AM 10/24/2006, you wrote:
> > This would be most un-Stataish and it would be in my view
> > be bad style for StataCorp to allow this with -outsheet-
> > or -outfile-, regardless of whether this is a format that
> > is acceptable or congenial downstream. But you could program
> > it yourself fairly easily. The best way that occurs to
> > me is to use -outsheet- or -outfile- to produce a file,
> > and then just read in that file once more and spit it
> > out again with extra intercalated lines.
> >
> > ... if !mod(count, s)
> >
> > picks up every s th line. That is, the task doesn't
> > or shouldn't require a hit on -outsheet- or -outfile-
> > code but could just be treated as a twist on copying a file.
> >
> > However, if you want tabs or commas in corresponding places,
> > that would need to be part of the twist.
> >
> > Nick
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> >
> > Michael McCulloch
> >
> > > -list- has a nifty option, -sepby()-, that allows me to list
> > > data separated
> > > with lines between a variable, in this case a date:
> > >
> > > .list  ini dxage sex race datetx, noobs sepby(datetx)
> > > VJ 68 male asian November, 1993
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > HM 59 male white December, 1993
> > > IT 47 male white December, 1993
> > > MO 76 male white December, 1993
> > > WC 74 male white December, 1993
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > AW 61 male white January, 1994
> > > +------------------------------------------------+
> > >
> > >  From reading the help files, I don't see that there is a way
> > > to do this
> > > using outsheet or outfile. Is it possible to output such a
> > > table to a file
> > > that can be read by Microsoft Excel or Word?
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>
> Best wishes,
> Michael
>
>
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