How to access what is returned by "tab" for binary variables?

[Gracia Brueckmann]

Hello everyone,

I would like to use

tab VAR

with return list. However, tab doesn't provide the numbers I would like to access in return list.

Here is an example which also explains what for I want to use that:

 log close _all
clear all // this clears data, analysis previously loaded
set more off // this allows all results to print at once, rather than one screen at a time
set linesize 70 // this controls width of text lines in Stata;
                // avoid wrapping or running off page
version 15  // sets Stata version;
            
************************************** Using MarkDoc & Microsoft Word
set linesize 80
qui log using autotest, replace smcl


//OFF
sysuse auto
sum price
return list
//ON
txt "Average price is" r(mean) ".

//OFF
tab foreign
return list

//ON
txt "There are ? domestic and ? foreign cars in the dataset."

qui log c

markdoc name,  exp(docx)                  //docx for ms word

(Yeah there is an error in the end. I have no idea why, but I just want to fill in X and Y. Just as with the average price.)

As I need to do this repetitively I am interested in any shortcuts I could use here.

Thanks in advance.

[Clyde Schechter]

You can't get that from -return list- after -tab-. The counts that -tab- calculates can be captured in a matrix by using the -matcell()- option.

sysuse auto, clear

//OFF
tab foreign, matcell(M)

//ON
display  "There are `=M[1,1]' domestic and `=M[2,1]' foreign cars in the dataset."

By the way, there is no Stata txt command. Printing out results and messages is accomplished with -display-. If, perhaps, you are using some commnity-contributed command named -txt-, the Forum etiquette is to explain that, give credit to its author(s) and point out where others can get it.

[Gracia Brueckmann]

Thank you very much for your kind answer.

I am sorry, that I did not know about the things you mentioned in the by the way. The txt comes from markdoc (ssc install markdoc) from E. F. Haghish.

Thanks you so much