installing via pip broken by stargazer

[apoorvalal]

since stargazer is only listed as a dev dependency but is already used extensively in the package, installing from the repo produces this undesirable behaviour (pip install git+<url> installed in a fresh virtualenv)

proposals (mainly so that this error doesn't persist into next release on pypi)

• make (py-econometrics/stargazer a default dependency)
• drop it entirely
• merge the existing PR against the main stargazer repo

[s3alfisc]

Yes, thanks for the pointer Apoorva! We're still debating how to best integrate stargazer and pyfixest, and I think that at least for the next pypi release, it looks like it's swinging in the direction to both drop the stargazer dependency & delete the pf.Stargazer method from pyfixest's code base.

[apoorvalal]

Yeah I think building something minimal and reasonable internally and exposing it via etable makes a lot more sense to me tbh; I think Stargazer packages end up in the same place 🙃.

[s3alfisc]

Yup, maybe that's the best approach - to not directly depend on the stargazer package, to have a nice internal etable() function that does the most important things well (and is maybe a little prettier than the current solution), and additionally to make sure that stargazer supports pyfixest for users who want a lot of customization?

[apoorvalal]

Yeah that makes sense; etable with reasonable aesthetics is the most a general regression package should promise to deliver IMO. Table customization is a rabbit-hole and promises to become scope-creep for this package. For sufficiently custom tables, there's no better alternative than to pipe numbers directly into text with fstrings f""" {coef} """ anyway (that's my preferred solution, but probably not the most beginner friendly 😆 )