[R] Antwort: Re: Variable labels and value labels

[G.Maubach at weinwolf.de]

Hi Jim,

many thanks for the hint.

When looking at the documentation I did not get how I do control which 
value gets which label. Is it possible to define it?

Kind regards

Georg




Von:    Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com>
An:     G.Maubach at weinwolf.de, r-help mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>, 

Datum:  01.06.2016 03:59
Betreff:        Re: [R] Variable labels and value labels



Hi Georg,
You may find the "add.value.labels" function in the prettyR package 
useful.

Jim

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:00 PM,  <G.Maubach at weinwolf.de> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using R for social sciences. In this field I am used to use short
> variable names like "q1" for question 1, "q2" for question 2 and so on 
and
> label the variables like q1 : "Please tell us your age" or q2 : "Could 
you
> state us your household income?" or something similar indicating which
> question is stored in the variable.
>
> Similar I am used to label values like 1: "Less than 18 years", 2 : "18 
to
> 30 years", 3 : "31 to 60 years" and 4 : "61 years and more".
>
> I know that the packages Hmisc and memisc have a functionality for this
> but these labeling functions are limited to the packages they were 
defined
> for. Using the question tests as variable names is possible but very
> inconvenient.
>
> I there another way for labeling variables and values in R?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Georg Maubach
>
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