Hello,

I would like to make a simple summary statistic table describing 3 merges. I just renamed the _merge variable that automatically gets generated _merge1 _merge2 _merge3. Essentially, what I would like to reproduce is a clean version of the merge statistics that are auto-generated by Stata, telling you how the matching went.

I learned about tabout and have been reading many of the manuals. However, the results I am getting are incredibly ugly/nonsensical and I can't figure out why.

For example, when I try

Code:
tabout _merge_1 _merge_2 _merge3 using "filepath/table.tex", replace ///
    style(tex) font(bold) oneway c(freq row) f(0c 1) ///
    clab(Count Col_%) npos(col) nlab(Sample) ///
It doesn't render anything sensical -- see below . If I take out nlab(Sample), it doesn't render anything at all, but I don't get an error either (this has also happened a few other times -- there is no error, but no output gets created).

Code:
&Count&Col \%&Sample \\
\hline
\textbf{Merge 1}&&& \\
Matched (3)&1000&100.0&1000 \\
\textbf{Total}&1000&100.0&1000 \\
\hline
\textbf{Merge 2}&&& \\
Master only (1)&3000&100.0&\3000
Using only (2)&500&100.0&500 \\
Matched (3)&20000&100.0&20000 \\
\textbf{Total}&23500&100.0&23500 \\
\textbf{Merge 3}&&& \\
Master only (1)&40&100.0&40 \\
Matched (3)&800&100.0&800\\
\textbf{Total}&840&100.0&840 \\
I'd also noticed that some of the options I was trying to use were not working. For example, from page 35 of the manual , I tried

Code:
sysuse auto, clear
tabout foreign rep78 using table12.tex, replace ///
style(tex) font(bold) sum npos(tufte) ///
c(mean mpg mean weight mean length median price ///
median headroom) f(1c 1c 1c 2cm 1c) h2(Mean Median) ///
h2c(3 2) clab(MPG Weight_(lbs) Length_(in) Price ///
Headroom_(in)) title(Table 12: Oneway summary table ///
\\ with multiple summary measures) fn(Source: auto.dta)
and I got errors "option twidth() not allowed" "option h2c() not allowed" "option title() not allowed". Same with fn(). When I remove these options, I get equally ugly output.

Code:
Mean Median
&MPG&Weight (lbs)&Length (in)&Price&Headroom (in) \\
\hline
\textbf{Car origin}&&&&& \\
Domestic (70\%)&19.8&3,317.1&196.1&\$4,782.50&3.5 \\
Foreign (29\%)&24.8&2,315.9&168.5&\$5,759.00&2.5 \\
\textbf{Total} (100\%)&21.3&3,019.5&187.9&\$5,006.50&3.0 \\
\hline
\textbf{Repair record 1978}&&&&& \\
1 (2\%)&21.0&3,100.0&189.0&\$4,564.50&1.8 \\
2 (11\%)&19.1&3,353.8&199.4&\$4,638.00&3.8 \\
3 (43\%)&19.4&3,299.0&194.0&\$4,741.00&3.5 \\
4 (26\%)&21.7&2,870.0&184.8&\$5,751.50&3.0 \\
5 (15\%)&27.4&2,322.7&170.2&\$5,397.00&2.5 \\
\textbf{Total} (100\%)&21.3&3,032.0&188.3&\$5,079.00&3.0 \\

Does anyone have any advice? I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I tried ssc install tabout and I have the newest version. I also ran everything from here: http://tabout.net.au/downloads/main_version/tabout.txt