[R] How to print labels and how to add missing label values?

[Edoardo Prestianni]

P.S. huge typo in the e-mail object: I guess I want to print and edit
"value labels", not "label values"



2014-11-24 19:23 GMT+01:00 Edoardo Prestianni <edoardo.prestianni at gmail.com>
:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Sorry for the "rookie" question but this is really beyond me at the moment.
>
> Here is my problem
>
> I have three datasets I am trying to work on. They're three panels.
>
> They have this variable, 'kecnum', which is present in all the three
> datasets, and it looks like it has been labeled in only one of the three
> datasets.
>
> When I import the datasets, R gives me a WARNING, stating
>
> [code] value labels (‘kecnum’) for ‘kecnum’ are missing [/code]
>
> for two datasets out of three.
>
>
> Looking at the tables, you see that the variable grows normally...   (like
> 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5...) in the datasets for which the warning is
> given.
> For the dataset for which the warning is NOT given, I just have a list of
> "NA"
>
>
> If I use the "describe" command, R prints out just
> [code] kecnum : Variable label for variable kecnum [/code]
>
> for all the THREE datasets.
>
>
> Only using Rstudio I can "see" a difference in the labeling of the
> variable between the datasets for which I am "warned" and the one for which
> I am not
> (screenshots attatched)
>
>
> But I have no idea on how to print that stuff out on a terminal. And most
> of all, on how to fix my datasets.
>
>
> Thank you very much for your time.
>



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Edoardo Prestianni

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