>>>>> "Heinz" == Heinz Tuechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Tue, 23 May 2006 01:17:21 +0100 writes:
Heinz> Dear All, after searching on CRAN I got the
Heinz> impression that there is no standard way in R to
Heinz> label values of a numerical variable.
Hmm, there's names(.) and "names(.) <- .."
Why are those not sufficient?
x <- 1:3
names(x) <- c("apple", "banana", NA)
Heinz> Since this
Heinz> would be useful for me I intend to create such an
Heinz> attribute, at the moment for my personal use. Still
Heinz> I would like to choose a name which does not conflict
Heinz> with names of commonly used attributes.
Heinz> Would value.labels or vallabs create conflicts?
Heinz> The attribute should be structured as data.frame with
Heinz> two columns, levels (numeric) and labels
Heinz> (character). These could then also be used to
Heinz> transform from numeric to factor. If the attribute is
Heinz> copied to the factor variable it could also serve to
Heinz> retransform the factor to the original numerical
Heinz> variable.
Heinz> Comments? Ideas?
Heinz> Thanks
Heinz> Heinz Tüchler
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