varlabel {readstata13}

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 [e-mail]

Sebastian Jeworutzki [e-mail]

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)