Resultssets to resultstables revisited

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A resultsset is a dataset created as output by a Stata command. Multiple resultssets can be appended or merged or combined in other ways to make secondary resultssets. However, their usefulness is in that they can be converted to resultsplots and/or resultstables in documents in a variety of formats. We focus on resultstables in .docx documents. Converting resultssets to resultstables starts with decoding (using sdecode and its family of dependent packages) and ends with listing decoded variables to a document (using docxtab or listtab). However, intermediate steps may include reshapeing (long or wide), appending, merging, characterizing (to define column headers), inserting gap observations, and/or grouping rows into pages in multipage tables. We illustrate this process using an example, outputting a multi-page table to a .docx document, and introcucing the ltop package for grouping lines into pages..