Tabout3 installation

[Daniel Zaas]

I recently updated my Stata to version 15. I have a do file that uses the tabout3 command. When I try to reinstall the command, I get the following error saying that it cannot be found. Any advice?

[David Radwin]

It may be because this version is still in beta. See https://tabout.net.au/docs/home.php for the do-file, which you can download, change the file's extension to .do if you are using Windows, and copy to the directory ending in \ado\plus\t.

tabout is by Ian Watson and earlier versions are available from SSC.

[eric_a_booth]

Alternatively (and because I like the beta/version 3), I have code like this in my do files to check for the file & install the beta if not on that machine (but if you ever DL from SSC it will likely overwrite with the official, non beta version!)

cap which tabout 
if _rc copy https://tabout.net.au/downloads/main_version/tabout.txt  `"`c(sysdir_personal)'/tabout.ado"', replace