Create tables of means and export them to LaTeX - export

Question

I am using the following code to create tables in Stata:
sysuse auto, clear
table rep78, contents(mean mpg mean weight)
--------------------------------------
Repair |
Record |
1978 | mean(mpg) mean(weight)
----------+---------------------------
1 | 21 3,100
2 | 19.125 3,353.8
3 | 19.4333 3,299
4 | 21.6667 2,870
5 | 27.3636 2,322.7
--------------------------------------
How can I directly export such tables in LaTeX markup?

Answer 1

The community-contributed command tabout provides an out-of-the-box solution:
. tabout rep78 using table.tex, style(tex) content(mean mpg mean weight) sum replace
Table output written to: table.tex
\begin{center}
\footnotesize
\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}X}
\begin{tabularx} {14} {#{} l Y Y #{}}
\toprule
& mpg & weight \\
\midrule
Repair Record 1978 \\
1 & 21.0 & 3,100.0 \\
2 & 19.1 & 3,353.8 \\
3 & 19.4 & 3,299.0 \\
4 & 21.7 & 2,870.0 \\
5 & 27.4 & 2,322.7 \\
Total & 21.3 & 3,032.0 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\normalsize
\end{center}

Answer 2

Below is a very simple working example of using the community-contributed command texdoc:
/* Create sample data */
clear *
set obs 10
gen date = _n
expand 10
set seed 123
gen i = runiform()
cd "/path/to/my/output"
/* Initialize and create LaTeX document */
texdoc init TexTest, replace
tex \documentclass{article}
tex \usepackage{stata}
tex \begin{document}
tex \section{Table 1}
texdoc stlog TexLog
table date, contents(mean i)
texdoc stlog close
tex \end{document}
The above code snippet creates TexTest.tex at /path/to/my/output/.
I use texdoc stlog before submitting the table command to capture the output of table in the log file. If you open the resulting tex file you will notice there is a line that has \input{TexLog.log.tex}. The compiler will insert the contents of the log file at that location in the LaTeX document.
You can compile the tex file using your preferred method. I use pdflatex in a Linux environment but had issues after initially installing it and had to resolve some dependencies for stata.sty.
After compiling, the resulting pdf file will contain the following table: