[R] Variable and value labels

[Adrian Dușa]

Anupam,

This is very general, and it also depends on the scientific domain.
Factors do solve the value labels, but they drop the (original) values.
They also lose the connection to the different types of missing values (an
important topic in the social sciences).

Base R provides as much as it can, but it cannot possibly cover all
applications out there, so an add-on package is a must.
A good way to do both variable and value labels, as well as different types
of missing values, is the package "declared".

I hope this helps,
Adrian

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 6:55 AM Anupam Tyagi <anuptyagi using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> is there an easy way to do variable and value labels (for factor variables)
> in base-R, without using a package. If not, what is an easy and good way to
> do labels, using an add-on package.
>
> --
> Anupam.
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