search

benjann / estout

Stata module to make regression tables
http://repec.sowi.unibe.ch/stata/estout/index.html
MIT License
70 stars 17 forks source link

Suggestion: throw a notification or warning when the user tabulates stored estimations (by default) without active estimations #9

Closed NilsEnevoldsen closed 8 years ago

NilsEnevoldsen commented 9 years ago

In regards to Issue #8, I've been thinking about how to prevent this confusion. I suggest throwing a notification or warning when

  1. namelist is empty,
  2. there are stored estimation results,
  3. there are active estimation results, and
  4. the active estimation results are not present in the stored estimation results. I think this can be determined with e(_estimates_name) and $eststo.

The situation is

eststo: reg price weight
reg price length
esttab

The notification would be something like

You have not specified a list of estimation results to tabulate. There are both stored estimation results and unstored estimation results. The list of estimation results to tabulate will default to _all, which is the list of all stored estimation results. Specify . to tabulate active estimation results.

benjann commented 8 years ago

The newest update of estout, which should be available from SSC in some days, now displays a (brief) note in this case. (I will also update estout on github, but I'm out of battery and have to do this later.)