var_view: Summarize variable information
In ImportExport: Import and Export Data

Description Usage Arguments Value Note See Also Examples

View source: R/var_view.R

Creates a table with the name, the description, the value labels and the format for each variable in the data frame. It is similar to the variable view shown in the SPSS.

1	var_view(x)

`x`	The data frame whose variables we want to summarize.

A data frame containing the specified summary.

This function was built in order to summarize imported SPSS labelled data sets using spss_import, but it can also work with other labelled data sets.

spss_import

require(ImportExport)
a<- 1:10
b<-rep("b",times=10)
c<-rep(1:2,each=5)
x<-data.frame(a,b,c)
attr(x$a,"label")<- "descr1"
attr(x$b,"label")<- NULL
attr(x$c,"label")<- "descr3"
attr(x$c,"value.labels")<-list("1"="Yes","2"="No")
var_view(x)