Thomas Lumley wrote:
> 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
Or:
library(Hmisc)
mydata <- spss.get('mydata.sav')
describe(mydata)
contents(mydata)
xYplot( )
etc. use the variable labels attached to individual variables. You can
retrieve them also this way:
with(mydata, plot(x, y, xlab=label(x), ylab=label(y)))
Frank Harrell
>
> Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle
>
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