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From | Dan Waldo <dan_waldo@yahoo.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | RE: st: RE: Displaying column percentages in a table |
Date | Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:53:25 -0700 (PDT) |
Thanks, Nick, for this clarification. The way my luck has been running, I'm guessing there's no workaround, but I can always cut-and-paste my tabular results and work from there. Again, thanks to you and to David for your time and expertise. --- On Thu, 11/4/10, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote: > From: Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> > Subject: RE: st: RE: Displaying column percentages in a table > To: "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> > Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010, 2:44 PM > That's a small bug. A call to > -tablecol- with -nofreq- option will result in that option > being passed direct to -tabdisp-, which is illegal. The > intent was that the -nofreq- call would be trapped but > it's not specified as a separate option in the -syntax- > statement. > > Nick > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk > > > Dan Waldo > > Thank you, David. This puts me pretty much where I want to > be. -tabulate- does not accept noninteger weights, so that's > a nonstarter; I was a little surprised to see that > -tablecol- does not appear to support the nofreq option > (documentation notwithstanding). But I'll iterate on this > ... thanks for putting me in a good starting position. > > --- On Thu, 11/4/10, David Radwin <dradwin@mprinc.com> > wrote: > > > If you like the -table- format, try > > Nick Winter's -tablecol-, available > > from SSC. > > > > You can instead use the official -tabulate- commands, > but > > then you forgo > > some other features. > > > Dan Waldo > > > > At present, I have this instruction: > > > > > > .table POVLL MCAID [pw=MARSUPWT] , f(%14.0fc) > row > > > > > > In place of the count in each table cell, I would > like > > to see the column > > > percentage. I suspect there is a simple command > or > > option that does > > this, > > > but for the life of me I cannot find it. > > > > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/