R: Get Stata Label Table for a Label Set

get.label {readstata13} | R Documentation

## 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)

### Arguments

`dat` | data.frame. Data.frame created by `read.dta13`.
`label.name` | character. Name of the Stata label set

### 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`.

### Value

Returns a named vector of code numbers

### Author(s)

Jan Marvin Garbuszus jan.garbuszus@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Sebastian Jeworutzki sebastian.jeworutzki@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

### Examples

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

[Package readstata13 version 0.9.2 Index]