[R] two questions for R beginners

Jim Lemon
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:11:19 -0000

On 03/26/2010 02:58 PM, Steve Powell wrote:
> For psychologists like me (possibly for others) by far the most
> time-consuming detail is variable labels. I need them for just about
> every analysis I do. We can use special packages like Hmisc and its
> function spss.get to import the labels, but then nearly all the other
> packages don't respect the labels, even simple things like list. So I
> find myself either adding them back in at every step or making my own
> versions of the functions. People coming from SPSS just expect the
> output of basic functions like factanal to display the labels, or at
> least to have the option of doing so.
> Respecting/preserving variable labels in more core functions would be
> an enormous help for social scientists IMHO.
>
Hi Steve,
 From another psychologist, this is one reason that I have been
rewriting a number of functions to read and display the
"variable.labels" attribute produced by the read.spss function in the
foreign package.

Jim