On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Frank Thomas wrote:

> Hi,
> I try to get the variable labels of a SPSS data file into R but don't
> find this mentioned in the help file for foreign. Is there another way
> to get them ?
> BTW: An SPSS variable name is like: VAR001, whereas the variable label
> might be 'Identification no.'

mydata <- read.spss("mydata.sav")
attr(mydata, "variable.labels")

        -thomas

Thomas Lumley                   Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       University of Washington, Seattle

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