Re: st: How to send -table- output to LaTeX table

[Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com>]

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Take a look at the latex options for -tabout- from SSC.  Another option is building this table in memory with -collapse- or some equivalent and then exporting the dataset with -texdoc- from SSC.

- Eric


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Eric A. Booth
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On May 6, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Richard Herron wrote:

> Is there a way to send -table- output to a LaTeX table? Or generate
> similar output with I can typically find a solution using -estpost-
> (from the -estout- package on SSC) combined with -tabstat- or
> -tabulate-, but here I would like either a oneway table with
> subdivisions of the sorting variable and several summary statistics
> variables:
> 
> . sysuse auto, clear
> (1978 Automobile Data)
> 
> . table foreign, by(rep78) c(mean headroom mean trunk)
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> Repair    |
> Record    |
> 1978 and  |
> Car type  | mean(headroom)     mean(trunk)
> ----------+-------------------------------
> 1         |
> Domestic |            1.8             8.5
>  Foreign |
> ----------+-------------------------------
> 2         |
> Domestic |            3.4          14.625
>  Foreign |
> ----------+-------------------------------
> 3         |
> Domestic |            3.2         15.5926
>  Foreign |            2.7         12.3333
> ----------+-------------------------------
> 4         |
> Domestic |            3.4         16.6667
>  Foreign |            2.5         10.3333
> ----------+-------------------------------
> 5         |
> Domestic |            2.3             9.5
>  Foreign |            2.6         11.8889
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> Or a twoway table with several summary statistics (I guess for this
> case I could do two -tabulate, summarize()- tables):
> 
> . table foreign rep78, c(mean headroom mean trunk)
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
>          |             Repair Record 1978
> Car type |       1        2        3        4        5
> ----------+--------------------------------------------
> Domestic |     1.8      3.4      3.2      3.4      2.3
>          |     8.5   14.625  15.5926  16.6667      9.5
>          |
>  Foreign |                       2.7      2.5      2.6
>          |                   12.3333  10.3333  11.8889
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I can't figure out how to generate these in -tabulate- or -tabstat-.
> Should I manually generate these tables in LaTeX?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Richard Herron
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