from_labelled: Convert from labelled data
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When reading SPSS files with read_data, the output contains vectors of class labelled. This function extracts the labels and attaches them as an attribute (by the same name) to the data, and converts any labelled variables into factors.

from_labelled(x)

## S3 method for class 'labelled'
from_labelled(x)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
from_labelled(x)

`x`	A `labelled` vector or `data.frame` containing it.

data.table input returns a copy of the data.table.

Kristian D. Olsen

vals <- c("Agree", "Neutral", "Disagree", "Don't know")
var <- haven::labelled(c(1, 5), labels = setNames(1:4, vals))

# Works with just the labelled vector
from_labelled(var)

# And a data.frame containing labelled vectors
from_labelled(as.data.frame(var))$var