var_labels: Get label attributes of variables in a 'data.frame'

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Get label attributes of variables in a data.frame

Description

Variable labels can be stored as a label attribute for each variable. This functions returns a named character vector with the variable labels (or empty strings if not specified).

Usage

var_labels(x, fill = FALSE)

Arguments

x	(data.frame) a data frame object.
fill	(flag) whether variable names should be returned for variables for which the label attribute does not exist. If FALSE, these variables are filled with NAs instead.

Value

a named character vector of variable labels from x, with names corresponding to variable names.

Examples

x <- iris
var_labels(x)
var_labels(x) <- paste("label for", names(iris))
var_labels(x)

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