Variable labels and frmttable

[Said Hassan]

I am using frmttable to generate a summary table.
As far as I can see the option varlabels should automatically add variable labels in the first column of the table. Am I doing this the wrong way? Code below.

cls
clear all

set obs 1000
ge u = rnormal()
label var u "Some label"

su u
mat a = r(mean),r(sd)

frmttable, statmat(a) varlabels

[Enrico Zorzi]

frmttable is not

automatically add variable labels

do you write the label , Do you have the label in the regression
look

h frmttable

my code

cls
clear all

set obs 1000
ge u = rnormal()
label var u "Some label"

su u
mat a = r(mean),r(sd)

frmttable, statmat(a) sdec(0) title("summary table") ctitle("","Means","SD") rtitle("Some label")

[William Lisowski]

The problem with the code in post #1 is that matrix has not been assigned a rowname, Consider the following example that shows the problem and how to fix it.

. su u

    Variable |        Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
           u |      1,000    .0220129    1.016991  -4.468302   3.533166

. mat a = r(mean),r(sd)

. matrix list a

a[1,2]
           c1         c2
r1  .02201291  1.0169906

. 
. frmttable, statmat(a) varlabels

                              --------------
                                0.02  1.02 
                              --------------


. 
. matrix rownames a = u

. matrix list a

a[1,2]
          c1         c2
u  .02201291  1.0169906

. 
. frmttable, statmat(a) varlabels

                        --------------------------
                         Some label   0.02  1.02 
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