New version of listtab on SSC

[Roger Newson]

Thanks as always to Kit Baum, a new version of the listtab package is now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the ssc command to do this, or adoupdate if you already have an old version of listtab.

The listtab package is described as below on my website, and superseded the old listtex package many years ago, although a lot of people still seem too download the old listtex. The new version adds an option rstyle(bbcode), allowing the user to specify a row style for BBcode tables for posting on Statalist and other bulletin boards. So, if the user types, in Stata,

sysuse auto, clear;
desc, fu;
listtab_vars make weight mpg, rstyle(bbcode) sub(varlab) lo(tabhead);
listtab make weight mpg if foreign, type rstyle(bbcode)
  head("");

then Stata outputs to the log file, and/oror to the Results window, some alien-looking code, which the user can cut and paste into a Statalist posting to create a table like this:

Make and Model	Weight (lbs.)	Mileage (mpg)
Audi 5000	2,830	17
Audi Fox	2,070	23
BMW 320i	2,650	25
Datsun 200	2,370	23
Datsun 210	2,020	35
Datsun 510	2,280	24
Datsun 810	2,750	21
Fiat Strada	2,130	21
Honda Accord	2,240	25
Honda Civic	1,760	28
Mazda GLC	1,980	30
Peugeot 604	3,420	14
Renault Le Car	1,830	26
Subaru	2,050	35
Toyota Celica	2,410	18
Toyota Corolla	2,200	31
Toyota Corona	2,670	18
VW Dasher	2,160	23
VW Diesel	2,040	41
VW Rabbit	1,930	25
VW Scirocco	1,990	25
Volvo 260	3,170	17

I would like to thank the Statalist organisers for providing the Sandbox, in which I tried out this new option.

Best wishes

Roger


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package listtab from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata11
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TITLE
listtab: List variables as rows of a TeX, HTML or word processor table

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
listtab outputs a list of variables to the Stata log or to a file as TeX,
HTML or word processor table rows, which can then be inserted into a TeX,
HTML or word processor table by cutting and pasting and/or file linking
and/or embedding (eg using the TeX \input command). listtab produces the
table rows, but may also produce a set of header lines before the table
rows and/or footer lines after the table rows, containing preambles and/or
table definitions and/or table headers and/or table footers, as specified
by the user.

Author: Roger Newson
Distribution-Date: 08october2015
Stata-Version: 11

INSTALLATION FILES (click here to install)
listtab.ado
listtab_vars.ado
listtab_rstyle.ado
listtab.sthlp
listtab_vars.sthlp
listtab_rstyle.sthlp
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(click here to return to the previous screen)

[Roger Newson]

Sorry, the code there should have been:

sysuse auto, clear;
desc, fu;
listtab_vars make weight mpg, rstyle(bbcode) sub(varlab) lo(tabhead);
listtab make weight mpg if foreign, type rstyle(bbcode)
  head("");

to insert the BBCode table header and footer.

Best wishes

Roger