readstata13: set.label – R documentation

Become an expert in R — Interactive courses, Cheat Sheets, certificates and more!

set.label

Assign Stata Labels to a Variable

Description

Assign value labels from a Stata label set to a variable. If duplicated labels are found, unique labels will be generated according the following scheme: "label_(integer code)". Levels without labels will become <NA>.

Usage

set.label(dat, var.name, lang = NA)

Arguments

`dat`	data.frame. Data.frame created by `read.dta13`.
`var.name`	character. Name of the variable in the data.frame
`lang`	character. Label language. Default language defined by `get.lang` is used if NA

Value

Returns a labeled factor

Examples

dat <- read.dta13(system.file("extdata/statacar.dta", package="readstata13"),
                  convert.factors=FALSE)

# compare vectors
set.label(dat, "type")
dat$type

# German label
set.label(dat, "type", "de")

readstata13

Import 'Stata' Data Files

v0.10.0

GPL-2 | file LICENSE

Authors

Jan Marvin Garbuszus [aut], Sebastian Jeworutzki [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2671-5253>), R Core Team [cph], Magnus Thor Torfason [ctb], Luke M. Olson [ctb], Giovanni Righi [ctb], Kevin Jin [ctb]

Initial release