Putpdf table after esttab or estout

[Deni Mazrekaj]

Hi everyone! It appears that putpdf table cannot be used after esttab or estout, but only after estimates table. Is this true?

[Andrew Musau]

See the collect command in Stata 17 for creating custom tables which can be added to a PDF document using putpdf collect. estout is from SSC (FAQ Advice #12). To your question, putpdf being an official command is not designed to work with third party commands, but you could import the estout table as a dataset and have putpdf pick it from there. Whether the formatting is acceptable is your call.

sysuse auto, clear
regress mpg weight disp i.rep78
esttab using myfile.csv, replace nobase nocons
import delimited myfile.csv, clear
foreach var of varlist *{
    replace `var'= ustrregexra(`var', `"[="]"', "")
}
putpdf begin        
putpdf  table mytable = data(*)
putpdf save myfile, replace

[Deni Mazrekaj]

Thanks for the reply Andrew Musau! However, I was more referring to using esttab or estout and then putpdf table immediately using etable

So like this:

sysuse auto, clear
regress mpg weight
estimates store reg1
esttab reg1
putpdf begin
putpdf table regtable = etable

This doesn't seem to work. It gives an error "information for the estimation table not found; Please replay estimation results and try again".

If I replace esttab with estout, it gives the same error. However, the same code with estimates table does work.

sysuse auto, clear
regress mpg weight
estimates store reg1
estimates table reg1
putpdf clear
putpdf begin
putpdf table regtable = etable

Does this mean that putpdf does not support these commands or are some adjustments necessary?

[Andrew Musau]

The best you can do is #2 AFAIK.