It's not the main question, but your problem
would be lessened by zapping those
prefixes of the form "varname==". -labvarch-
from -labutil- from SSC is one utility easing
that.
Nick
[email protected]
Ian Watson
> I have come across two problems with -estimates table- and would
> appreciate any advice.
>
> The first one involves the varwidth and label options. Varwidth
> works fine as far as widening the first column goes, but the
> variable labels (produced by labels) are truncated. For example,
> setting varwidth to 50 works fine, but the labels are truncated at
> 32 characters. I have had a look through the code to see what
> might be causing this, but have not been able to find anything.
>
> The code beneath my signature illustrates the problem.
>
> The second problem concerns cutting and pasting the table. The copy
> table option does not seem to place tab characters into the pasted
> table text. it has always worked perfectly fine with other table
> output (eg. tabulate, tabstat) but it does not work with -estimates
> table-. I cannot think of a reason for this, but would
> appreciate any
> insights.
>
> Details of my setup are:
>
> Stata 8.2, born 30 Jan 2004
> Windows 2000 (SP3)
> Pentium with 512 meg of ram
>
>
> . est store mod1
>
> . est table mod1, varwidth(50) label
>
> NOTE THE TRUNCATION OF THE LABELS:
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Variable | mod1
> ---------------------------------------------------+-------------
> | .11307243
> empstat02==F/T casual | -.29730412
> empstat02==P/T permanent | -.62858397
> empstat02==P/T casual | -.34207824
> asco02==manager/admin | -.57485294
> asco02==para-prof | -.12916459
> asco02==tradesperson | -.1598727
> asco02==adv clerical | -.19963498
> asco02==inter clerical,sales,ser | -.2579195
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