Suppress \addlinespace in esttab/estout?

[Leah Bevis]

Is there a simple way to suppress the \addlinespace between covariate rows when outputting regression results from Stata to latex using esttab/estout?

Here is an example that results in a tex file with those spaces.

clear 
mata: mata clear
estimates clear
eststo clear

sysuse auto
eststo: regress price weight mpg
eststo: regress price weight mpg foreign

esttab  using "/${LATEX}/Tables/TEST.tex", label style(tex)     ///
        booktabs noconstant fragment depvars replace

[Andrew Musau]

estout is from SSC, as you are asked to explain (FAQ Advice #12). Thanks for the data example. Here is some way using the -substitute()- option.

clear 
mata: mata clear
estimates clear
eststo clear

sysuse auto
eststo: regress price weight mpg
eststo: regress price weight mpg foreign

esttab, label style(tex)  booktabs substitute ("\addlinespace" " ") ///
noconstant fragment depvars replace

Res.:

. 
. esttab, label style(tex)  booktabs substitute ("\addlinespace" " ") ///
> noconstant fragment depvars replace

                    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{(1)}&\multicolumn{1}{c}{(2)}\\
                    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Price}&\multicolumn{1}{c}{Price}\\
\midrule
Weight (lbs.)       &       1.747\sym{**} &       3.465\sym{***}\\
                    &      (2.72)         &      (5.49)         \\
 
Mileage (mpg)       &      -49.51         &       21.85         \\
                    &     (-0.57)         &      (0.29)         \\
 
Car origin          &                     &      3673.1\sym{***}\\
                    &                     &      (5.37)         \\
\midrule
Observations        &          74         &          74         \\

[Leah Bevis]

WOW. Ok thanks I will check out those FAQ advice. And this is perfect, I had no idea I could do substitutions like this, thank you!

[Nils Enevoldsen]

-esttab, substitute()- is very powerful option, and good to know. However, for your particular problem, -esttab, nogaps- is more elegant.