We've been here before, so check the archives.
Aren't they labels, not lables?
R can use sensible names directly. In particular, given S/R has factors,
I don't see that `variable lables' add anything:
gender <- factor(c(0,1,1), labels=c("Male", "Female"))
seems all you need.
There are also comment attributes in R:
VAR001 <- gender
comment(VAR001) <- "Gender of Respondent"
which might play the role of "variable lable" if you really can't use
meaningful names.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Paul E Johnson wrote:
> I'm looking for an analogy to SPSS and "variable lable" and "value
> lable" in R. I have a copy of S+4.0 and can't find any info in their
> docs, and don't find it in R-intro either.
>
>
> In SPSS, for each variable, there is a name like
>
> VAR001
>
> and a variable lable (a longer descriptive string) like
>
> Respondent ID
>
> and for many of the values of other variables there are value lables.
> For example, VAR008 has the lable
>
> GENDER of Respondent
>
> and it has values of 0 and 1, and the values are labled
>
> 0 Male
> 1 Female
>
> Sometimes value lables are much longer strings.
>
> Whenever a person runs a model in SPSS, the printout automatically finds
> the lable and prints it along with the variable name and the values are
> replaced by their lables.
>
> In R, does one keep a list of variable lables and value lables? If so,
> where? It seems to me that an R collection type like Map or Hash would
> be needed so one could put in a variable name and get back a lable.
>
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