Re: st: RE: How can I append tabout output in Excel using logout?

[sara khan <sarakhanum84@googlemail.com>]

Thank you all for responses.

I find formatting tables easier to do in Excel.

Roy Wada, the author of -logout- offered the following solution, which
worked for me:

* drop frivolous rows
sysuse auto, clear
local append replace
foreach y in trunk weight {
  forv s=0/1 {
   qui su mpg if foreign==`s'
   if r(N)!=0{
    caplog using logfile, `append': tabstat mpg if foreign==`s' ,
stat(n mean median p25 p75 min max )
    local append append
   }
  }
}
logout, clear use(logfile)
drop if t1=="variable" & _n~=1
logout, save(test_together) excel replace


* keep them
sysuse auto, clear
local append replace
foreach y in trunk weight {
  forv s=0/1 {
   qui su mpg if foreign==`s'
   if r(N)!=0{
    caplog using logfile, `append': tabstat mpg if foreign==`s' ,
stat(n mean median p25 p75 min max )
    local append append
   }
  }
}
logout, use(logfile) save(test_together) excel replace


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't really use Excel (other than to save data I've been sent to
> CSV for importing into Stata) or use M$-Windows, but I suspect that
> because of the proprietary nature of the Excel file format that
> -logout- is actually writing CSV files and files with the .csv
> extension are (generally) associated with the Excel program on most M$
> machines.
>
> If you _really_ want to do this (-collapse- and -statsby- will likely
> get you there quicker though), then you can write lots of individual
> files (with a slight tweaking of your code) and then concatenate them
> into one large file.  You can even do this from within Stata by making
> a shell call.
>
>
>>>
>>> forv i=0/5 {
>>> foreach y in male singlet{
>>> forv s=0/1{
>>> di "myga==`i' & `y'==`s'"
>>> qui su bwtg if myga==`i' & intab1==1 & admit_ic==1 & bwtg<. & `y'
>>>        if r(N)!=0{
>>>  logout, save("C:\data\do_files\mytab_`i'_`y'_`s'.txt")  excel replace: tabstat
>>> bwtg if myga==`i' & intab1==1 & admit_ic==1 & bwtg<., stat(n mean
>>> median p25 p75 min max ) by(`y') col(stat) f(%9.0g) notot nosep
>>>
>>> }
>>> }
>>> }
>>> }
>
> * Note that I've modified the above code so that each call to -logout-
> is writing the results to an individual file based on levels of i, y
> and s
> * Under a UNIX-like system the command to use is 'cat' and whilst
> you'd never have a "c:\" path the call would be
> !cat c:/data/do_files/mytab_* > c:/data/do_files/mytab.txt
>
> * Under M$-Windows you need to use the DOS Copy command (see
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69575)
> !COPY c:/data/do_files/mytab_* c:/data/do_files/mytab.txt
>
> Should do the trick, but as Nick says what is it that you can't do in Stata?
>
>
> Neil
>
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