R - stargazer add reference categories

Question

I was wondering if someone came with a solution to show up the reference categories of categorical variables using stargazer?

library(stargazer         


        

Answer 1

If you are willing to accept my revised strategy, then extract the names of the xlevels-lidt-item in the lm1-object, and their associated first levels and substitute the pasted character values for the "(Intercept) value:

baselines = sapply( lm1$xlevels, "[[", 1)
names(lm1$coefficients)[1] = paste0( names(baselines), " = ", baselines, 
                                     collapse="; ")

I now get:

stargazer(lm1, single.row = TRUE,  omit.table.layout = "sn")

% Table created by stargazer v.5.2 by Marek Hlavac, Harvard University. E-mail: hlavac at fas.harvard.edu
% Date and time: Sat, Nov 19, 2016 - 07:49:18
\begin{table}[!htbp] \centering 
  \caption{} 
  \label{} 
\begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{5pt}}lc} 
\\[-1.8ex]\hline 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
 & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textit{Dependent variable:}} \\ 
\cline{2-2} 
\\[-1.8ex] & disp \\ 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
 gear = 3; carb = 1 & 250.226$^{***}$ (24.363) \\ 
  gear4 & $-$202.921$^{***}$ (22.477) \\ 
  gear5 & $-$160.898$^{***}$ (36.282) \\ 
  carb2 & 71.282$^{**}$ (27.919) \\ 
  carb3 & 25.574 (39.919) \\ 
  carb4 & 155.852$^{***}$ (27.355) \\ 
  carb6 & 55.672 (68.065) \\ 
  carb8 & 211.672$^{***}$ (68.065) \\ 
 \hline \\[-1.8ex] 
\hline 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
\end{tabular} 
\end{table} 

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