Export tabstat to a text file (.txt)

[Nathan Ulm]

Hi guys,

I am searching a way how I can export descriptive/summary statistics to a .txt file. I've been trying tabstat, tabexport and outreg2, but didn't really work.
Tabstab is the good way it looks like, but I didn't find a way how to export it as a text file (.txt). But this should be somehow possible?

tabstat `descriptive', stats(n mean sd min max) format (%9.2f) col(stats) save

I tried to make a path behind save, but stata comes always up with something wrong in it...
Anyone has a way to export summary statistics to a .txt file?

Thanks for help.
Nathan

[Nick Cox]

The save option doesn't save to a file as is documented.

sysuse auto, clear
log using tabstat.log
tabstat mpg price weight
log close
type tabstat.log