horizontal lines esttab

[Riccardo Meli]

hello and thanks in advance.
I have an issue with the options of a table created by esttab command:

* Save the results of the pooled regression in a table
label variable capacity_manu_avg "Manufacturing average"
esttab reg_DE reg_ES reg_FR reg_IT reg_UK using "$export_directory/capacity_backcasting.tex", /// The order is important!
replace f b(3) se(3) star(* 0.10 ** 0.05 *** 0.01) ///
keep(capacity_manu_avg) ///
label booktabs nonotes gaps noobs nolines nonum collabels(none) alignment(D{.}{.}{-1}) ///
mtitles("Germany" "Spain" "France" "Italy" "UK") scalars("N Observations" "r2 R-squared") sfmt(%13.0fc %13.2fc )
est clear
The result of this code is the image attached. However i would like to have an horizontal line between the name of the countries and the estimates below.
I have tried to change the option "nolines" into lines and the result is the second image attached which is not ideal since the horizontal lines appear both between the name of the countries and the estimates and between the estimates and obsevations.
Does anyone know an option that can help?

[Andrew Musau]

estout is from SSC (FAQ Advice #12). Provide a reproducible example. You can use one of Stata's datasets. See FAQ Advice #12 for details.

[Nils Enevoldsen]

Try using option -lines- together with option -prefoot("")-. This overrides the estout -prefoot()- option that esttab generates, which is usually -prefoot(\addlinespace)- (if gaps are desired) or -prefoot(\midline)- (if lines are desired) or nothing (if neither gaps nor lines are desired).

The esttab option -noisily- is useful in similar situations. It allows you to peek behind the curtain at how the estout options that esttab generates change as you fiddle with esttab options.