[R] understanding the no-label concept

[William Dunlap]

You can use 'factors' to assign labels to small integer values.  E.g.,
   > x <- c(1,2,3,4,3)
   > fx <- factor(x, levels=1:5, labels=c("One","Two","Three","Four","Five"))
   > table(fx)
   fx
     One   Two Three  Four  Five
       1     1     2     1     0

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:17 AM,  <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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