I am not sure this is relevant or helpful, but see ?abbreviate, which one can use to abbreviate long strings as labels (but only for English-like languages, I believe).
-- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:00 AM, <g.maub...@weinwolf.de> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am using R for social sciences. In this field I am used to use short > variable names like "q1" for question 1, "q2" for question 2 and so on and > label the variables like q1 : "Please tell us your age" or q2 : "Could you > state us your household income?" or something similar indicating which > question is stored in the variable. > > Similar I am used to label values like 1: "Less than 18 years", 2 : "18 to > 30 years", 3 : "31 to 60 years" and 4 : "61 years and more". > > I know that the packages Hmisc and memisc have a functionality for this > but these labeling functions are limited to the packages they were defined > for. Using the question tests as variable names is possible but very > inconvenient. > > I there another way for labeling variables and values in R? > > Kind regards > > Georg Maubach > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
