-esttab- to .rtf and results window at once?

[Jae Yu]

Dear all,

I'm wondering if there is a way to use -esttab- to display regression results in stata's results window and save them in .rtf file at once.
I'm aware that -esttab using filename.rtf- generates .rtf file containing regression results. To check the results, I should open the .rtf file because the results do not appear in stata's results window. Is there such an option to achieve these two at once?

Thanks in advance.

[William Lisowski]

The output of

help esttab

suggests the type option may do what you want.

[Jae Yu]

I've gone through -help esttab-, but still don't know the answer.

[William Lisowski]

Did you not find the type option in the output of help esttab? The section of help esttab at

help esttab##output

describes the output options, including

        +--------+
    ----+ Output +--------------------------------------------------

    ...

    type specifies that the assembled table be printed in the
        results window and the log file. This is the default unless
        using is specified.

    ...

Thus, try

esttab using filename.rtf, type

and see if it does what you want.

[Jae Yu]

William Lisowski
Thanks for your suggestion. I got your point now. But adding the option prints something that looks like code (not table) in results view.

A part of what I got in results view:

{\trowd\trgaph108\trleft-108\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs

[William Lisowski]

Ah, that's not as helpful of esttab. as I'd hoped it would be. I'm sorry for the incorrect advice.

The solution is to use the Stata shell command to run a command-line command to open filename.rtf in an application.

On Stata for Mac running

sysuse auto, clear
quietly regress price weight
esttab using filename.rtf, replace
shell open filename.rtf
shell open filename.rtf -a "Microsoft Word"

first opens filename.rtf in the default application (TextEdit, ugh) and then opens filename.rtf using the application specified after the -a. Assuming you are a Microsoft Windows user, I'd guess that Microsoft Word is the default application for opening rtf files, but maybe not.