Hi,
Can we attach a more descriptive "label" (I may use the wrong terminology, which would explain why I found nothing on the FAQ) to variable names, and later have an easy way to switch to these labels in plots? I fear this is not possible and one must enter this by hand as ylab and xlab when making plots.
Thanks in advance,
Denis Chabot
The Hmisc package supports this:
label(x) <- 'Some Label' describe(x) # uses variable name and label plot(x, y, xlab=label(x)) Better: xYplot(x, y) # label used automatically
And if you do units(x) <- 'whatever units of measurement' then xYplot, describe, and other Hmisc functions will include the units (in a different font on graphs or when using latex()).
Frank
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