[R] understanding the no-label concept

[Richard M. Heiberger]

It looks like a terminology issue.  R has names for elements of a
vector and for rows and
columns of a matrix or data.frame, and more generally for all
dimensions of multi-dimensional array.

I think your next step is to read the introductory document.
Start with either of these (they are the same content)
system.file("../../doc/manual/R-intro.html")
system.file("../../doc/manual/R-intro.pdf")

For the specific situations you described, here are examples.

aa <- 1:5
names(aa) <- letters[1:5]
aa
names(aa) <- c("ABC","DEF","GHI","LMN","OPQ")
aa

bb <- matrix(1:12, 3, 4, dimnames=list(letters[1:3], LETTERS[1:4]))
bb

## install.packages("Hmisc") ## if you don't have it yet
library(Hmisc)
latex(bb)



Rich


On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:17 PM,  <moonkid at posteo.org> wrote:
> I am new to R but a bit familiar with Stata and SPSS and a software dev.
>
> As I understand it right, there is no possibility to give variables or
> values a lable. Is that right?
>
> Just for example. "x" need a name. And the four values (1, 2, 3, 4)
> need it to.
>
> [code]
>> table(x)
>
> 1  2  3  4
> 17  6  6  2
> [/code]
>
> I understand that R itself is powerful and well developed. So I try to
> understand why it doesn't support labels.
>
> And in the next step I try to understand how do you work with your data
> and publish (e.g. with *TeX) it without using labels? R can put out
> *TeX-code, right? I don't want to modify the outputted code manually. It
> would waste my time and decreases my efficiency.
>
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