[R] attributes in dplyr and haven

[Hadley Wickham]

Install the latest version of dplyr? Should be fixed there.
Hadley

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Conklin, Mike (GfK)
<Mike.Conklin at gfk.com> wrote:
> I read in spss files using haven's read_spss. Each column then gets attributes assigned named
> label - a long description of the variable
> class -" labelled"
> labels --- answer labels i.e. 1=Male, 2=Female
>  example -
>> attributes(KPTV[[3]])
> $label
> [1] "DERIVED: Survey language"
>
> $class
> [1] "labelled"
>
> $labels
> English Spanish
>       1       2
>
> However, if I subset the data.frame  e.g. MassTV<-KPTV[row selection logic,] the label attribute disappears
>
> attributes(MassTV[[3]])
> $labels
> English Spanish
>       1       2
>
> $class
> [1] "labelled"
>
> If I use dplyr to filter the data I simply get an ERROR that the label attribute is not supported.
>
>> MassTV<-filter(KPTV,KPTV$MNO %in% KPMass$`KPMain$mno`)
> Error: column 'MNO' of type numeric has unsupported attributes: label
>
> Any ideas on how I can preserve the label attribute (i.e. the long description of the variable name?)
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Mike
>
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