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

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Thanks for this. My answer is the same. I think you are better off with -collapse- or -statsby-. The reason is this: you seem to want a dataset of results. You can get that directly with either of those two commands. What you are proposing is running a command repeatedly and then working on all the results to put them together. But those two commands do that for you in a single step. 

But in any case, I have never used -logout- and can't advise on its use. -logout- is a user-written program from SSC, as you are asked to make clear in postings. Its author is not a member of Statalist, so a direct personal mail to him may be the best strategy if you do not get what you ask for from somebody else on the list. 

As before: What do you want to do in MS Excel that (you think) can't be done in Stata?

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

sara khan

Many thanks for your suggestion yesterday. Apologies that I didn't
read this yesterday.

I am now trying to export the tabstat output into Excel using
-logout-. I added this to command to my code from yesterday (which I
will update using your helpful suggestions). Logout doesn't seem to
append each additional table.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

> I'd first pay attention to the suggestions you have received in
>
> <http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-04/msg01552.html>
>
> -- if only because it's possible that the extra condition & `y' hides a
> bug in your code.
>
> But you're probably better off with -collapse- or -statsby-. What do you
> want to do in MS Excel that can't be done in Stata?

sara khan

> I am running a lot of tabstats and need to compare the output in one
> Excel sheet. Is there a way of appending the output as there isn't an
> append option for logout?

> Here is my code:
>
> 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.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
>
> }
> }
> }
> }

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