get.label {readstata13}

Get Stata Label Table for a Label Set

Description

Retrieve the value labels for a specific Stata label set.

Usage

get.label(dat, label.name)

Arguments

dat

data.frame. Data.frame created by read.dta13.

label.name

character. Name of the Stata label set

Details

This function returns the table of factor levels which represent a Stata label set. The name of a label set for a variable can be obtained by get.label.name.

Value

Returns a named vector of code numbers

Author(s)

Jan Marvin Garbuszus [e-mail]

Sebastian Jeworutzki [e-mail]

Examples

dat <- read.dta13(system.file("extdata/statacar.dta", package="readstata13"))
labname <- get.label.name(dat,"type")
get.label(dat, labname)