groups command, export/copy table to excel

[Graham Wells]

the groups function is a very useful command, however the output seems to be not very transferable - is there a way to export the results to excel? Copy Table does not work for -groups- ouput
Either with the same function as "copy Table" for other output, or putexcel?
Thanks

[Nick Cox]

The groups command (not function) is downloadable from the Stata Journal.

search st0496

finds clickable links.

SJ-18-1 st0496_1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for groups
(help groups if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q1/18 SJ 18(1):291
groups exited with an error message if weights were specified;
this has been corrected


SJ-17-3 st0496 . . . . . Speaking Stata: Tables as lists: The groups command
(help groups if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q3/17 SJ 17(3):760--773
presents command for listing group frequencies and percents and
cumulations thereof; for various subsetting and ordering by
frequencies, percents, and so on; for reordering of columns;
and for saving tabulated data to new datasets

What you see documented is what there is. You can use the saving() option to save the table as a new dataset and then export excel. Otherwise I haven't been tempted to provide any such functionality. It's not something I ever do.