[R] R and SAS proc format
Frank E Harrell Jr
f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Tue Mar 6 20:59:53 CET 2007
lamack lamack wrote:
> Dear all, Is there an R equivalent to SAS's proc format?
>
> Best regards
>
> J. Lamack
Fortunately not. SAS is one of the few large systems that does not
implicitly support value labels and that separates label information
from the database [I can't count the number of times someone has sent me
a SAS dataset and forgotten to send the PROC FORMAT value labels]. See
the factor function for information about how R does this.
Frank Harrell
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Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
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