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Demonstration of variable.labels attribute in RStudio Viewer and Hmisc::label
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| label_test <- cars | |
| attr(label_test, "variable.labels") <- c("Speed (km/h)", "Distance traveled (km)") | |
| View(label_test) | |
| str(label_test) # data.frame attribute | |
| # Alternative using Hmisc (does not show up in RStudio Viewer) | |
| label_test <- cars | |
| Hmisc::label(label_test$speed) <- "Speed (km/h)" | |
| Hmisc::label(label_test$dist) <- "Distance traveled (km)" | |
| str(label_test) # Column specific attributes |
Author
crsh
commented
Oct 8, 2015
The package haven also uses an attribute called label for each variable to import labels from SPSS, STATA, or SAS.
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