readstata13 (version 0.10.1)

get.label: Get Stata Label Table for a Label Set

Description

Retrieve the value labels for a specific Stata label set.

Usage

get.label(dat, label.name)

Value

Returns a named vector of code numbers

Arguments

dat

data.frame. Data.frame created by read.dta13.

label.name

character. Name of the Stata label set

Author

Jan Marvin Garbuszus

Sebastian Jeworutzki

Details

This function returns the table of factor levels which represent a Stata label set. The name of a label set for a variable can be obtained by get.label.name.

Examples

dat <- read.dta13(system.file("extdata/statacar.dta", package="readstata13"))
labname <- get.label.name(dat,"type")
get.label(dat, labname)