I'm puzzled. I provided a solution that did not require looping. Frank Monsieur Do wrote: > > I did read the help page before posting, but didn't find the direct way... > My function here works fine. But just for learning purposes, I'd like to > be able to avoid the loop... > > with.labels <- function(x, labels=NULL, csvfile=NULL) { > if(!is.null(csvfile)) labels <- read.csv(csvfile, sep="\t", header=F, > stringsAsFactors=F)[,1] > for(i in 1:length(x)) label(x[,i]) <- labels[i] > if(length(labels) != length(x)) cat("Warning: data and labels are not of > same length\n") > return(x) > } > > Thanks > >> Message: 11 >> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:22:07 -0700 (PDT) >> From: > Frank Harrell <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> >> To: > r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: > Re: [R] Labelling all variables at once (using Hmisc label) >> Message-ID: > <1313493727519-3746928.p...@n4.nabble.com> >> Content-Type: > text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> Do > require(Hmisc); ?label to see the help file for label. It will show you >> how to > do this: >> >> Monsieur > Do wrote: >> > > I have a dataset and a list of labels. I simply want > >> > to > apply the labels to the variables, all at once. The only way I was able >> > to do > it was using a loop: >> > >> > for (i in 1:length(data)) label(data[,i]) <-data.labels[i] >> > >> > I'd like to find the non-loop way to do it, using > >> > > apply or the like... Any help appreciated. >> > >> ----- > >> Frank > Harrell >> Department > of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. >
----- Frank Harrell Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Labelling-all-variables-at-once-using-Hmisc-label-tp3745660p3751273.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.