set.lang {readstata13}

Assign Stata Language Labels

Description

Changes default label language for a dataset. Variables with generated labels (option generate.labels=TRUE) are kept unchanged.

Usage

set.lang(dat, lang = NA, generate.factors = FALSE)

Arguments

dat

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

lang

character. Label language. Default language defined by get.lang is used if NA

generate.factors

logical. If TRUE, missing factor levels are generated.

Value

Returns a data.frame with value labels in language "lang".

Author(s)

Jan Marvin Garbuszus [e-mail]

Sebastian Jeworutzki [e-mail]

Examples

dat <- read.dta13(system.file("extdata/statacar.dta", package="readstata13"))
get.lang(dat)
varlabel(dat)

# set German label
datDE <- set.lang(dat, "de")
get.lang(datDE)
varlabel(datDE)