st: Re: tab, table, or list display control for row header

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I think you just need to format the variables before tabulating.  Try:

format tac_err* %8.0f

and then run your tabulate loops

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer S. Earl" <jearl@soc.ucsb.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 5:35 PM
Subject: st: tab, table, or list display control for row header



> My problem has to do with display controls so that my case id numbers show 
> up in full form, versus in scientific notation.
>
> In more detail, I produce a long series of tables (about a 100) in two 
> forvalues loop:
>
> forvalues i = 1(1)9 {
> tab tac_err00`i' if sum(tac_err00`i')>0 & tac_err00`i'>0
> }
>
> forvalues i = 10(1)99 {
> tab tac_err0`i' if sum(tac_err0`i')>0 & tac_err0`i'>0
> }
>
> A sample table from this output is:
>
> 9: Tactic |
> value is  |
> invalid   |      Freq.
> ----------+-----------
>        0 |         42
> 2.01e+07 |          1
> 2.01e+07 |          1
> 2.01e+07 |          2
> 2.01e+07 |          1
>
> My problem is that I want the values in the row headers to show up as full 
> numbers, versus in scientific notation.
>
> I have tried using table instead of tabulate, list instead of table (as in:
> forvalues i = 1(1)9 {
> list eventid if sum(tac_err00`i')>0 & tac_err00`i'>0
> }
>
> and, all of those have the same problem.
>
> I can't figure out a way to control the display of the row header. When the 
> id numbers are shorter, it works fine, but at the length my ids are at now, 
> it always seems to do this.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jenn
>
> *********************************
> Jennifer Earl
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