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Demonstration of variable.labels attribute in RStudio Viewer and Hmisc::label
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variable_labels.R
label_test <- cars
attr(label_test, "variable.labels") <- c("Speed (km/h)", "Distance traveled (km)")
View(label_test)
str(label_test) # data.frame attribute
# Alternative using Hmisc (does not show up in RStudio Viewer)
label_test <- cars
Hmisc::label(label_test$speed) <- "Speed (km/h)"
Hmisc::label(label_test$dist) <- "Distance traveled (km)"
str(label_test) # Column specific attributes
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crsh commented Oct 8, 2015

variable_labels

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crsh commented Oct 12, 2015

The package haven also uses an attribute called label for each variable to import labels from SPSS, STATA, or SAS.

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