R: Get Names of Stata Label Set

get.label.name {readstata13} | R Documentation

## Get Names of Stata Label Set

### Description

Retrieves the Stata label set in the dataset for all or an vector of variable names.

### Usage

    get.label.name(dat, var.name = NULL, lang = NA)

### Arguments

`dat` | data.frame. Data.frame created by `read.dta13`.
`var.name` | character vector. Variable names. If `NULL`, get names of all label sets.
`lang` | character. Label language. Default language defined by `get.lang` is used if NA

### Details

Stata stores factor labels in variable independent labels sets. This function retrieves the name of the label set for a variable.

### Value

Returns an named vector of variable labels

### Author(s)

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

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

[Package readstata13 version 0.9.2 Index]