On Oct 11, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> It looks like a terminology issue. R has names for elements of a
> vector and for rows and
> columns of a matrix or data.frame, and more generally for all
> dimensions of multi-dimensional array.
>
> I think your next step is to read the introductory document.
> Start with either of these (they are the same content)
> system.file("../../doc/manual/R-intro.html")
> system.file("../../doc/manual/R-intro.pdf")
>
> For the specific situations you described, here are examples.
>
> aa <- 1:5
> names(aa) <- letters[1:5]
> aa
> names(aa) <- c("ABC","DEF","GHI","LMN","OPQ")
> aa
>
> bb <- matrix(1:12, 3, 4, dimnames=list(letters[1:3], LETTERS[1:4]))
> bb
>
> ## install.packages("Hmisc") ## if you don't have it yet
> library(Hmisc)
> latex(bb)
Hmisc also has a labeling facility and mechanisms for importing SAS labels. (I
don't know if importation of SPSS labels is supported.) Hmisc::label uses the
capacity of R to attach attributes to data-objects. So pay particular attention
to the introductory material that Richard (and Bert Gunther) refer you to in
the area of "attributes", and read ?Hmisc::label (after installing that
package.)
--
David.
>
> Rich
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:17 PM, <moon...@posteo.org> wrote:
>> I am new to R but a bit familiar with Stata and SPSS and a software dev.
>>
>> As I understand it right, there is no possibility to give variables or
>> values a lable. Is that right?
>>
>> Just for example. "x" need a name. And the four values (1, 2, 3, 4)
>> need it to.
>>
>> [code]
>>> table(x)
>>
>> 1 2 3 4
>> 17 6 6 2
>> [/code]
>>
>> I understand that R itself is powerful and well developed. So I try to
>> understand why it doesn't support labels.
>>
>> And in the next step I try to understand how do you work with your data
>> and publish (e.g. with *TeX) it without using labels? R can put out
>> *TeX-code, right? I don't want to modify the outputted code manually. It
>> would waste my time and decreases my efficiency.
>
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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