st: Formatting .rtf tables produced by estout / esttab

[Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd.89@gmail.com>]

Dear Statlist,

I am using esttab (part of the estout package from SSC) to produce
tables of regression output in .rtf files.

I would like to know how to center model group headers over the set of
columns to which they correspond.

When using esttab / estout to produce tables in .tex, the requisite code is

mgroups("1" "2" "3" "4", pattern(1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0)
prefix(\multicolumn{@span}{c}{) suffix(}) span)

which would produce four groups over a total of 8 columns, with the
label "1" centered over columns 1 and 2, the label "2" centered over
columns 3 and 4, etc.

I cannot figure out how to reproduce this in an .rtf table. Neither

mgroups("1" "2" "3" "4", pattern(1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0)
prefix(\multicolumn{@span}{c}{) suffix(}) span)

nor

mgroups("1" "2" "3" "4", pattern(1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0) span)

produces the desired result: the group header appears over the first
column to which it corresponds, i.e. "1" over column 1, the label "2"
over column 3, etc.

(That the first fails is not surprising, since it looks very latex-specific.)


Many thanks in advance for any suggestions,

BL

PS:

. which estout
c:\ado\plus\e\estout.ado
*! version 3.13  06aug2009  Ben Jann

. which esttab
c:\ado\plus\e\esttab.ado
*! version 2.0.5  09mar2009  Ben Jann
*! wrapper for estout

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