stargazer - What's new?

This page summarizes the models, features, and bug fixes that were introduced in each release of stargazer. 

Please note that I am always looking for comments and suggestions. 
Do not hesitate to contact me at mhlavac [at] alumni.princeton.edu

v. 5.2.2:
- very minor update: removed instances in code where if/while statement is used with a condition of length greater than one

v. 5.2.1:
- very minor update: updated author and maintainer contact information

v. 5.2:

- New models:
-- arima (stats) 
-- censReg (censReg) 
-- garchFit (fGarch) 
-- glmrob (robustbase) 
-- lme (nlme) 
-- nlme (nlme) 
-- mnlogit (mnlogit) 
-- pgmm (plm) 

- New features:
-- decimal mark (argument decimal.mark) now gets automatically updated in notes (argument notes) 

- Fixed bugs:
-- felm (lfe) working again 
-- fixed formatting issues that led to an occasional inability to produce ASCII text output 
-- much faster output of multi-model tables with many omitted variables 
-- negative numbers are now properly displayed when initial.zero is set to FALSE 
-- fixed minor bug that occasionally led to a misalignment of additional lines (argument add.lines) 
-- lm() and glm() models now report AIC and BIC 
-- underscores are now properly formatted in column and dependent variable labels
-- fixed an issue with the mlogit model that led LR tests to crash the output when no intercept was present

v. 5.1:

- New features:
-- the CRAN description now lists packages whose usefulness is enhanced by stargazer

- Fixed bugs
-- labels that indicate whether variables have been omitted from the model are now correctly assigned (argument omit.labels)
-- argument summary.stat now functions properly
-- out.header and header can both be set to false at the same time
-- minor formatting changes

v. 5.0:

- New models: 
-- felm (lfe) 

- New features:
-- ability to produce HTML/CSS output (argument type) 
-- vector and matrix objects are now acceptable (argument ...) 
-- additional lines can be included in the tables (argument add.lines)
-- table layout is now fully customizable (arguments table.layout and omit.table.layout) 
-- choice over which summary statistics should be reported (arguments summary.stat and omit.summary.stat) 
-- users can choose whether and the order in which to report coefficients, standard errors, confidence intervals, test statistics and p-values (argument report)
-- object names can be reported above each column (argument object.names) 
-- option to toggle the reporting of dependent variables and model names across several columns (argument multicolumn) 
-- reporting of model statistics' degrees of freedom can now be suppressed (argument df) 
-- users can now include more than three statistical significance cutoffs (argument star.cutoffs) 
-- regression, summary statistic and data frame table can now be flipped (argument flip) 
-- colnames and rownames can be included in, or excluded from, data frame content tables (arguments colnames and rownames) 
-- argument summary can now have a different value for each table within a single stargazer() call 
-- if arguments coef, se, t, p, ci.custom and add.lines only contain a single vector, they will be accepted as though they were a list containing the same vector 

- Fixed bugs: 
-- fixed bug that caused the number of observations to be misreported in complicated models 
-- fixed bug that led to the omission of coefficients from output when multiple models had a single regressor
-- notes now working well for summary statistics and data frame tables 
-- font size can now be change even if floating environment is not used 
-- fixed compatability issues with latest version of Zelig
-- minor formatting changes 

v. 4.5.3: 

- New features: 
-- model objects can now be passed to stargazer in a list (argument ...) 

- Fixed bugs: 
-- fixed problem with printing negative numbers in data frame and summary statistics tables
-- corrected formatting of column widths in ASCII text output
-- minor bug with lme4 covariate names corrected 

v. 4.5.2: 

- Fixed bugs: 
-- much faster output 
-- now compatible with the updated lme4 package 
-- corrected a bug that prevented users from including multiple models with a single covariate + intercept 
-- underscores now print correctly in ASCII text output 

v. 4.5.1:

- Fixed bugs:  
-- fixed a bug involving the calculation of t-statistics from user-given coefficients and standard errors 

v. 4.5: 

- New models: 
-- binaryChoice (sampleSelection) 
-- brglm (brglm) 
-- coeftest (lmtest) 
-- heckit (sampleSelection) 
-- maBina (erer) 
-- mclogit (mclogit) 
-- mlogit (mlogit) 
-- selection (sampleSelection) 

- New features: 
-- explanatory variables can be ordered in customizable ways (argument order) 
-- custom functions can now be applied to coefficients (argument apply.coef), standard errors (argument apply.se), test statistics (argument apply.t), p-values (argument apply.p), and confidence intervals (argument apply.ci) 
-- keep explanatory variables and statistics based on regular expressions (argument keep and keep.stat) 
-- users can customize confidence intervals (argument custom.ci) 
-- ability to have both standard errors and confidence intervals in the same table (argument ci is now a logical vector) 
-- different confidence levels for each individual column (argument ci.level is now a vector) 
-- ability to omit and keep variables based on their position in the table

- Fixed bugs:  
-- citation and change log updates 
-- minor formatting changes 

v. 4.0: 

- New models: 
-- aftreg (eha) 
-- bj (rms) 
-- coxreg (eha) 
-- cph (rms) 
-- dynlm (dynlm) 
-- errorsarlm (spdep) 
-- Glm (rms) 
-- Gls (rms) 
-- gmm (gmm) 
-- hetglm (glmx) 
-- lrm (rms) 
-- mlreg (eha) 
-- lagsarlm (spdep) 
-- ols (rms) 
-- phreg (eha) 
-- psm (rms) 
-- rem.dyad (relevent) 
-- rq (quantreg) 
-- Rq (rms) 
-- weibreg (eha) 

- New features: 
-- the package can produce ASCII text output, in addition to LaTeX code (argument type) 
-- output directly to .tex or .txt files (argument out) 
-- column labels (arguments column.labels and column.separate) 
-- confidence intervals (arguments ci, ci.level and ci.separator)
-- coefficients and standard errors/confidence intervals can now be reported in the same row (argument single.row) 
-- users can choose to omit all empty lines in a table (argument no.space) 
-- notes can now be appended to, rather than always replace, the default notes for a given style (argument notes.append) 
-- ability to customize the dependent variable caption (argument dep.var.caption) 
-- font size can now be changed (argument font.size) 
-- comments header (with package and author name, version, date and time) can now be suppressed (argument header) 
-- ability to change or disable the floating environment (arguments float and float.env) 
-- table placement settings (argument table.placement) 
-- customization of column spacing (argument column.sep.width) 
-- perl-compatible regular expressions (argument perl) 

- Fixed bugs: 
-- all columns are now displayed for multinom objects 
-- better positioning of tables in the LaTeX document
-- minor formatting changes 

v. 3.0.1: 

- Fixed bugs:
-- corrected an issue that led to problems when printing data frames with multiple decimal places
-- some reporting and formatting changes to summary statistics and data frame tables

v. 3.0: 

- New models: 
-- clm (ordinal) 
-- clogit (survival) 
-- ergm (ergm) 
-- glmer (lme4) 
-- gls (nlme) 
-- lmer (lme4) 
-- lmrob (robustbase)
-- nlmer (lme4)
-- pmg (plm)
-- rlm (MASS)

- New features:
-- users can customize coefficients (argument coef), standard errors (se), test statistics (t), and p-values (p)
-- automatic calculation of z-scores and p-values when the user supplies custom standard errors (can be toggled using arguments t.auto and p.auto)
-- ability to set \label{} markers in TeX for each table (using argument label)
-- summary statistics table can now report logical (i.e., dummy, indicator) variables as if they had values of 0 (corresponding to FALSE) and 1 (TRUE). See argument summary.logical.
-- user can choose between rounding to a set number of decimal places (argument digits) and reporting all available decimal places (by setting digits equal to NA) 
-- can omit all test statistics 

- Fixed bugs: 
-- package runs much faster 
-- corrected p-values for polr() and zelig oprobit, ologit models 
-- coxph now, by default, reports robust standard errors, for consistency with its summary() output 
-- multinom models now report the first set of coefficients (when multiple sets are present), instead of producing an error
-- singularities in model estimation results no longer disrupt the output 
-- model formulas can now be symbols 
-- no more warnings when creating summary statistics tables 
-- minor formatting changes

v. 2.0.1: 

- Fixed bugs: 
-- stargazer now reports the correct number of observations for plm() models 

v. 2.0: 

- New models: 
-- betareg (betareg) 
-- hurdle (pscl) 
-- ivreg (AER) 
-- multinom (nnet) 
-- plm (plm) 
-- tobit (AER) 
-- zeroinfl (pscl) 
  
- New features: 
-- direct output of data frames into LaTeX (summary = FALSE) 
-- ability to omit the reporting of selected statistics (using argument omit.stat)
-- alignment of columns at the decimal mark (align = TRUE) 
-- automatic coordination of star cutoffs and values in regression table notes

- Fixed bugs: 
-- argument \digits now works properly 
-- stargazer updated to reflect, and work properly with, recent changes to Zelig
-- variable names can now contain dollar signs and underscores 
-- some minor formatting fixes 