varlabel: Get and assign Stata Variable Labels
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varlabel

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Get and assign Stata Variable Labels

Description

Retrieve or set variable labels for a dataset.

Usage

varlabel(dat, var.name = NULL, lang = NA)

varlabel(dat) <- value

Arguments

`dat`	data.frame. Data.frame created by `read.dta13`.
`var.name`	character vector. Variable names. If NULL, get label for all variables.
`lang`	character. Label language. Default language defined by `get.lang` is used if NA
`value`	character vector. Character vector of size ncol(data) with variable names.

Value

Returns an named vector of variable labels

Author(s)

Jan Marvin Garbuszus jan.garbuszus@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Sebastian Jeworutzki sebastian.jeworutzki@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Examples

dat <- read.dta13(system.file("extdata/statacar.dta", package="readstata13"),
                  convert.factors=FALSE)

# display variable labels 
varlabel(dat)

# display german variable labels
varlabel(dat, lang="de")

# display german variable label for brand
varlabel(dat, var.name = "brand", lang="de")

# define new variable labels
varlabel(dat) <- letters[1:ncol(dat)]

# display new variable labels
varlabel(dat)

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