I think this page quite succinctly describes this issue: http://www.statmethods.net/input/variablelables.html
I dunno how hard it would be to add this to data.tables or whether many other people would find it useful, but it's something I've always thought a galling omission from the data.frame model. How hard it would then be to get that to interoperate with something like mtable or toLatex would be a real win, but just being able to associate a string with a column as a label beyond the variable name would certainly be a start. thanks, -griff -- Griffith Rees Sociology DPhil Candidate Oxford University CABDyN Complexity Centre http://www.cabdyn.ox.ac.uk _______________________________________________ datatable-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help
