Does this fix it?
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substitute(_ \_ $ \\$ % \% ) ///
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Regards, Sergiy Radyakin
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Devra Golbe <[email protected]> wrote:
> The following code using Ben Jann's wonderful -estout- (SJ) produces a
> summary statistics table in latex format. The -substitute- option lets me
> substitute "\%" for the "%" which appears in a variable label. I have not
> been able to figure out what combination of compound quotes, etc. is
> necessary to turn a "$" into a "\$". I suspect that Stata reads the dollar
> sign in the -substitute- option as indicating an empty macro, but neither
> that suspicion nor a search of the help files or web has turned up a
> solution.
>
> Thanks,
> Devra
>
> ********************************
> sysuse auto
> label var price "Price ($), not (%)"
> estpost summ price weight mpg
> estimates store sum
> estout sum, ///
> title (Summary Statistics) ///
> mlabels(, none) ///
> cells ("mean (fmt(%9.2fc)) sd (fmt(%9.2fc )) count (fmt(%9.0f))")label ///
> style(tex) ///
> substitute(_ \_ $ \$ % \% ) ///
> prehead(\begin{tabular}{ll*{3}{r}}) ///
> posthead("\hline") prefoot("\hline") ///
> postfoot(\hline\end{tabular})
>
> ******************
> Devra Golbe
> Professor of Economics
> Hunter College /CUNY
> 695 Park Ave, NY, NY
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