SPSS and R ? do they like each other?

In fact,when using read.spss to read the spss data
file into R,the labels are retained (keeped) rather
than be dropped.
for example WVS is the data file be readed in,it has
label.table and variable.labels.

names(attributes(WVS.CHINA))

[1] "label.table"     "variable.labels" "names"  
and label.table is something like "value: in spss
file and variable.labels are "label" in spss data
file.
hope this helps.