Message-ID: <4988C7D1.1060401@vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 2009-02-03T22:40:17Z
From: Frank E Harrell Jr
Subject: Numeric class and sasxport.get
In-Reply-To: <4988B382.7050004@cognigencorp.com>
Sebastien Bihorel wrote:
> Dear R-users,
>
> The sasxport.get function (from the Hmisc package) automatically defines
> the class of imported variables. I have noticed that the class of
> theoretically numeric variables is simply "labelled", although character
> variables might end up been defined as "labelled" "Date" or "labelled"
> "factor".
> Is there a way to tell sasxport.get to define numeric variable as
> "labelled" "integer" or "labelled" "numeric"?
Sebastien,
If that would fix a problem you're having we could look into it.
Otherwise I'd tend to leave well enough alone.
Frank
>
> Thank you
>
> Sebastien
>
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Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
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