Export table from fre to Word, Excel, LaTeX, HTML with asdocx

[Attaullah Shah]

For asdocx users and others who might be interested in fre and asdocx.

asdocx with fre

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fre is a community-contributed package written by Ben Jann. It generates univariate frequency tables for specified variables, including counts, overall percent, percent based on non-missing observations, and cumulative percent. In response to requests from users of the asdocx, support for fre has been added to asdocx. A slightly modified version of fre is available on the asdocx website, which is automatically downloaded when a user first uses fre with asdocx. The modification is done to extract only the output matrix from fre and send it to asdocx, no other changes are made. Using fre with asdocx is simple; simply add ‘asdocx’ as a prefix to the fre command. Here is an example of using fre with asdocx.

* Load auto dataset
 sysuse auto , clear
 asdocx fre foreign

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[William Lisowski]

A slightly modified version of fre is available on the asdocx website, which is automatically downloaded when a user first uses fre with asdocx.

I couldn't find that download on https://fintechprofessor.com/asdocx/ so I will ask the following question. Is the modified version of fre also named fre.ado, replacing any copy of the original version from Ben Jann ?

[Attaullah Shah]

The modified version is called asdocx_fre.ado. As shown above, the syntax remains the same, but asdocx uses a different version. Users can keep the original version of fre.ado and choose to run it without asdocx or with asdocx. Ben Jann suggested adding an option to fre so that the asdocx mode is only activated when an asdocx user wishes to use it. I am awaiting further action in this regard. If you want to see the asdocx_fre.ado, you can get it by running the command

net install asdocx_fre, from(https://fintechprofessor.com)