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set.lang

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 jan.garbuszus@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Sebastian Jeworutzki sebastian.jeworutzki@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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)

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