Re: st: Can't get tabxml to work

[Scott Talkington <talkings@gmu.edu>]

Thanks, Nick.  It's working now.  I produce a lot of simple  tabulations 
that go into Excel, and get tired of cutting and pasting.

1/6/2011 11:34 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> "the national study"? Lots of nations are represented on this list....
>
> That aside, I can't see that it is documented but -tabxml- (from SSC)
> evidently requires prior installation of -matsum- from
>
> STB-39  dm49  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Some new matrix commands
>          (help matfunc, varfunc if installed)  . . . . . . . . . . .  J. Weesie
>          9/97    pp.17--20; STB Reprints Vol 7, pp.43--48
>          collection of new matrix commands; several for explicit matrices
>          and a few for implicit matrices (i.e., variables)
>          see mata matrix language incorporated into Stata 9
>
> I can't say what else may be required but not documented, as this
> desire to convert to XML for Excel use is not one I've ever shared.
>
> Nick
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Scott Talkington<talkings@gmu.edu>  wrote:
>
> > I'm attempting to analyze some data from the national longitudinal study of
> > youth and output some simple tables to an Excel file that I can then map
> > into an Excel workbook template.  At this point I don't care where the data
> > is stored, I just want to get some output.
> >
> > I want to look at a binary dependent variable for whether the respondent has
> > ever been convicted of a crime, by a discrete independent variable
> > indicating church attendance (4 categories).  I may add a second independent
> > variable later.  I'm just interested  in the percentages and frequencies,
> > but can format the output in Excel so don't even care if it's just a decimal
> > proportion.  (i.e. means for 0=never convicted vs 1=at least one
> > conviction).
> >
> > After installing the package and typing in the command line:
> >
> > .tabxml, dv(con) ivd(church) options(n mean) osvy
> >
> > I get the error the following error.
> >
> > unrecognized command:  matsum
> > r(199);
> >
> > I can't find any information on this error, and haven't even issued a
> > "matsum" command so it must be coming from the tabxml ado file.  Is this
> > another package I need to install, or something that's just not working?
> >
> > I'm using Stata Version 10.1 (the latest update).  I've also tried updating
> > the tabxml package but it's apparently already updated.
> >
> > There's nothing terribly sophisticated about the statistics, although I
> > would like to get the chi-sq and pvalues or an F statistic for the bivariate
> > model.
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