Message-ID: <OF94AAE502.B31492A3-ONC1257FC5.0060B3F0-C1257FC5.0060D37E@lotus.hawesko.de>
Date: 2016-06-01T17:37:35Z
From: G.Maubach at weinwolf.de
Subject: Antwort: Re: Variable labels and value labels
In-Reply-To: <CA+8X3fU=nenzXRJy1GyWMFe8Dx6Qf-LKy2BMFYusrT9by_HF9A@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Jim,
many thanks for the hint.
When looking at the documentation I did not get how I do control which
value gets which label. Is it possible to define it?
Kind regards
Georg
Von: Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com>
An: G.Maubach at weinwolf.de, r-help mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>,
Datum: 01.06.2016 03:59
Betreff: Re: [R] Variable labels and value labels
Hi Georg,
You may find the "add.value.labels" function in the prettyR package
useful.
Jim
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:00 PM, <G.Maubach at weinwolf.de> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using R for social sciences. In this field I am used to use short
> variable names like "q1" for question 1, "q2" for question 2 and so on
and
> label the variables like q1 : "Please tell us your age" or q2 : "Could
you
> state us your household income?" or something similar indicating which
> question is stored in the variable.
>
> Similar I am used to label values like 1: "Less than 18 years", 2 : "18
to
> 30 years", 3 : "31 to 60 years" and 4 : "61 years and more".
>
> I know that the packages Hmisc and memisc have a functionality for this
> but these labeling functions are limited to the packages they were
defined
> for. Using the question tests as variable names is possible but very
> inconvenient.
>
> I there another way for labeling variables and values in R?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Georg Maubach
>
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