Tabout error: 'Misplaced alignment tab character &'

[Michael Wiebe]

I'm trying to export tables to LaTeX, using tabout.

sysuse auto
tabout foreign using test.tex, c(freq cell cum) f(0c,1) style(tex) replace

This is the output:

Car type&No.&\%&\% \\
\hline
Domestic&52&70&70 \\
Foreign&22&30&100 \\
Total&74&100& \\

However, when I compile my .tex document, I get the error "Misplaced alignment tab character &" for every '&' in test.tex.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
  \input{test.tex}
\end{table}
\end{document}

I'm using tabout version 2.0.7, and I get the same behavior on Stata 12 and Stata 14.

[Jorrit Gosens]

Read the help file on Latex file contents, page 33: http://www.ianwatson.com.au/stata/tabout_tutorial.pdf

Otherwise, use esttab, which I think has simpler syntax. Example:

sysuse auto
eststo: quietly regress price weight mpg
eststo: quietly regress price weight mpg foreign
esttab using example.tex, label nostar title(Regression table\label{tab1})

[Michael Wiebe]

Okay, the solution is to create `top.tex` and `bot.tex` files, as defined on p.33 of the tutorial. Then the code is:

tabout foreign using test.tex, c(freq cell cum) f(0c,1) clab(Freq % Cum_%) style(tex) topf(top.tex) botf(bot.tex) replace

However, this still produces an ugly table. Instead I used `esttab`:

estpost tab for
esttab . using test.tex, replace cell((b(fmt(0)) pct(fmt(2)) cumpct(fmt(2))))