Stargazer R Package: position of the header in the latex table

Question

I use the stargazer package in r to create summary statistics for latex documents. However, the function creates latex code with a heading (signature) on top of the table. Is there an easy way to place the title under the table?

require(stargazer)
df <- data.frame(a=c(1,2,3),
                 b=c(2,3,5),
                 c=c(8,8,9))

stargazer(df,summary = TRUE, type = "latex",
          title = "summary statistic")

The output of the function is as follows:

\begin{table}[!htbp] \centering 
  \caption{summary statistic} 
  \label{} 
\begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{5pt}}lccccc} 
\\[-1.8ex]\hline 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
Statistic & \multicolumn{1}{c}{N} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Mean} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{St. Dev.} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Min} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Max} \\ 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
a & 3 & 2.000 & 1.000 & 1 & 3 \\ 
b & 3 & 3.333 & 1.528 & 2 & 5 \\ 
c & 3 & 8.333 & 0.577 & 8 & 9 \\ 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
\end{tabular} 
\end{table} 

Please note that the signature is on top of the table. I would like to have the following:

\begin{table}[!htbp] \centering 
\begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{5pt}}lccccc} 
\\[-1.8ex]\hline 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
Statistic & \multicolumn{1}{c}{N} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Mean} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{St. Dev.} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Min} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Max} \\ 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
a & 3 & 2.000 & 1.000 & 1 & 3 \\ 
b & 3 & 3.333 & 1.528 & 2 & 5 \\ 
c & 3 & 8.333 & 0.577 & 8 & 9 \\ 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
\end{tabular} 

  \caption{summary statistic} 
  \label{} 

\end{table} 

NTN Andreas

Answer 1

I wanted to do the same and went to SO to find the answer. Since there is no answer, here is my approach. The basic idea is to write a function that captures and recreates the output stargazerby moving the signature and label below:

caption_at_bottom <- function(expr) {
  x <- capture.output(expr)
  cap <- grep("\\\\caption", x)
  lab <- grep("\\\\label", x)
  last <- grep("\\\\end\\{table", x)
  cat(
    paste(
      c(x[-last], x[cap], x[lab], x[last])[-c(cap, lab)]
    , collapse = "\n")
  , "\n")
}

Using your example:

caption_at_bottom(
  stargazer(df, summary = TRUE, type = "latex", header = F,
          title = "summary statistic")
)

# \begin{table}[!htbp] \centering 
# \begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{5pt}}lccccc} 
# \\[-1.8ex]\hline 
# \hline \\[-1.8ex] 
# Statistic & \multicolumn{1}{c}{N} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Mean} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{St. Dev.} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Min} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Max} \\ 
# \hline \\[-1.8ex] 
# a & 3 & 2.000 & 1.000 & 1 & 3 \\ 
# b & 3 & 3.333 & 1.528 & 2 & 5 \\ 
# c & 3 & 8.333 & 0.577 & 8 & 9 \\ 
# \hline \\[-1.8ex] 
# \end{tabular} 
#   \caption{summary statistic} 
#   \label{} 
# \end{table}

Answer 2

You want to change a parameter notein a call stargazer(), for example

stargazer(df,summary = TRUE, type = "latex",
          title = "summary statistic",
          notes = "put your summary statistic note here"
)