You probably noticed that we did not have the Cum. Putexcel A2=matrix(names) B2=matrix(freq) C2=matrix(freq/r(N)) using results,īelow is the table produced in Excel by these commands.Īgain this is a basic tabulation table. Putexcel A1=("Car type") B1=("Freq.") C1=("Percent") using results, replace The putexcel commands used to create a basic tabulation table in Excel column 1 row 1 are tabulate foreign, matcell(freq) matrow(names) We need to use the matcell() and matrow() options of tabulate to save the results produced by the command into two Stata matrices. Tabulate is different from most commands in Stata in that it does not automatically save all the results we need into the stored results (we will use scalar r(N)). Because tabulate is not an estimation command, use the return list command to see its stored results. Load the auto dataset, and run a tabulation on the variable foreign. When I open the file corr.xlsx in Excel, the table below is displayed. Note that to export the matrix row and column names, we used the names option after we specifed the matrix r(C). Putexcel A1=matrix(r(C), names) using corr The command to type in your Stata Command window is To re-create the table in Excel, we need to export the matrix r(C) with the matrix row and column names. Let’s list the matrix r(C) to see what it contains. There is a helpful video on Youtube about the dialog here. It is easy to build the above syntax in the putexcel dialog. If you are working with matrices, the syntax is putexcel excel_cell=matrix( expression) … using filename The basic syntax of putexcel is putexcel excel_cell=( expression) … using filename Now we can use putexcel to export these results to Excel. Let’s try a simple example by loading the auto dataset and running correlate on the variables foreign and mpgīecause correlate is not an estimation command, use the return list command to see its stored results. You can list a command’s stored results after it has been run by typing ereturn list (for estimation commands) and return list (for general commands). The two main types of stored results are e-class (for estimation commands) and r-class (for general commands). Combining putexcel with a Stata command’s stored results allows you to create the table displayed in your Stata Results window in an Excel file.Ī stored result is simply a scalar, macro, or matrix stored in memory after you run a Stata command. There is a new command in Stata 13, putexcel, that allows you to easily export matrices, expressions, and stored results to an Excel file.
Update 07 June 2018: See Export tabulation results to Excel-Update for new features that have been added since this original blog.