extracting elements from tab results

[tim bradshaw]

Hi there

I'm trying to extract and store results from a tab command

tab var1 var2

[output suppressed]

"return list" gives me the following scalars:
r(N) = 11318466
r(r) = 2
r(c) = 2

This tells me the total number of observations, and that it is a 2x2 table, but I would like to extract and store the actual numbers from the 2x2 table.

Thanks

[Clyde Schechter]

-help tabulate twoway- will show you that there is a -matcell()- option that allows you to create a matrix with the contents of the table.

[tim bradshaw]

Ah yes, thanks!