Stata to LaTeX

Flamed Diving

Any templates for creating tables dsiplaying regression results? There seems to be a standard and I would like to follow it.

Time Magazine

Outtex or EST2TEX will do, but outtex > est2tex imho.

Flamed Diving

Time Magazine wrote: »

Outtex or EST2TEX will do, but outtex > est2tex imho.

Ok, I'm not a techie (though not clueless either), so I will require a bit of assistance here. I believe that this is something that I must install into Stata? Or is it?



Ok, just to update. I made outtex.ado with the code I copied into notepad, and placed it into Stata9\ado\update\o. When I try to run outtex I get:

outtex
unexpected end of file
(error occurred while loading outtex.ado)
r(612);


[P] error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Return code 612
unexpected end of file;
You used infile with a dictionary, and the file containing the
dictionary ended before the `}' character. Perhaps you forgot
to type the closing brace, or perhaps you are missing a hard
return at the end of your file. You may also get this message
if you issued the command #delimit ; in a do-file and then
subsequently forgot to use `;' before the `end' statement.

Time Magazine

Yes. You should have been taught this in your tutorials, to be fair.

In Stata, enter ssc inst outtex, which will install it. Open your data, run your regression, then use the commands listed in the PDF to get the correct output. The output is TeX code so you can copy and paste it straight into your text editor.

Flamed Diving

I believe I missed that tutorial.

Thanks for your help.

Time Magazine

Flamed Diving wrote: »

Ok, just to update. I made outtex.ado with the code I copied into notepad, and placed it into Stata9\ado\update\o.

No need to go to all that trouble, just get Stata to install it directly.

When I try to run outtex I get:

You need to run outtex immediately after running a regression. Also it's not just a case of entering the command outtex, you need to specify some parameters as well.

Flamed Diving wrote: »

I believe I missed that tutorial.

Waster :pac:

Flamed Diving

Yeah, the install command worked. In fact, the ADO file I placed in the folder stopped it from running even after I followed your instructions, so its best if people just avoid everything I did.

Flamed Diving

Good god, it's so pretty.

Flamed Diving

Good lord! Getting text to go where you want it is difficult, isn't it? Subsections seem to wander around also. I have been using outtex, and I haven't changed the output one bit, but when I try to arrange the tables under different sections and add some text underneath (or before) it just migrates. In addition, I can't use pagebreaks.

Time Magazine

Flamed Diving wrote: »

Good lord! Getting text to go where you want it is difficult, isn't it?

Stop trying to get it to go where you want it to! Just leave it be, stop micro-managing, honestly!

Subsections seem to wander around also.

Are you using \subsection{Mary Had a Little Lamb} command? If so, by "wandering around" do you mean the alignment within a page or do you mean jumping several pages? If it's the former, it's not a problem. If it's the latter, you're doing something wrong.

I have been using outtex, and I haven't changed the output one bit, but when I try to arrange the tables under different sections and add some text underneath (or before) it just migrates.

That's LaTeX being clever and it's not a problem. See the outtex output that begins with \begin{table}[htbp]\centering? Lob on a \label{little_lamb} after that line (and be sure there isn't another label in there). Now, instead of writing "As the results below show...", run with "As the results in Table \ref{little_lamb} show..." Done. Don't worry about whether it's above, below, behind, on top or even rooted in the anus of where you want it to be. Stop worrying about that sort of thing, that's one of the best things about LaTeX.

In addition, I can't use pagebreaks.

You shouldn't be going near them. Honestly, really, sincerely, just let LaTeX do its thing. Knuth knows best. Beyond that, if you really don't trust the prettiness of the package, the command \newpage is pretty foolproof.

Flamed Diving

Ok, I will try that out. But seriously, this isn't a case of me wanting too much control. For example, I want output like:

Section 3

Blah, blah, blah:

"TABLE1"

Natter, natter, natter.

Subsection 3.1

Blah, blah:

"TABLE2"

Natter, natter.

But what I am getting is:

Section 3

Blah, blah, blah:

"TABLE1"

Subsection 3.1

Natter, natter, natter (meant to be in above section).

Blah, blah:

"TABLE2"

Natter, natter.

So, while I don't mind the text moving around the tables so much (as you said, I can just make reference to each table), I do mind not being able to put relevant text in their relevant sections, and the same with tables. Perhaps I should just have a single section for tables and keep the text completely seperate.

oscarBravo

Flamed Diving wrote: »

...I do mind not being able to put relevant text in their relevant sections...

Yeah, I'd mind that too

Can you share some of the LaTeX source so we can try to figure out why it's doing that? I've never seen LaTeX do that.

Flamed Diving

I will dig it out.

Flamed Diving

Ok, since I am at college I had to start using that USBTeX thing I posted in resources. Anyway, it seems to have fixed the problem.

Time Magazine

Flamed Diving wrote: »

Ok, since I am at college I had to start using that USBTeX thing I posted in resources. Anyway, it seems to have fixed the problem.

Like oB, never heard of TeX being that stupid before so I blame USBTeX . I've never had any problems with this online compiler if you need to compile from a college PC.