On 03/26/2010 02:58 PM, Steve Powell wrote:
For psychologists like me (possibly for others) by far the most
time-consuming detail is variable labels. I need them for just about
every analysis I do. We can use special packages like Hmisc and its
function spss.get to import the labels, but then nearly all the other
packages don't respect the labels, even simple things like list. So I
find myself either adding them back in at every step or making my own
versions of the functions. People coming from SPSS just expect the
output of basic functions like factanal to display the labels, or at
least to have the option of doing so.
Respecting/preserving variable labels in more core functions would be
an enormous help for social scientists IMHO.
Hi Steve,
From another psychologist, this is one reason that I have been
rewriting a number of functions to read and display the
"variable.labels" attribute produced by the read.spss function in the
foreign package.
Jim
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