RE: st: RE: Displaying column percentages in a table

[Dan Waldo <dan_waldo@yahoo.com>]

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.
> > > 
> 
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