Get Stata Label Table for a Label Set

Retrieve the value labels for a specific Stata label set.

get.label(dat, label.name)

Arguments

dat

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

label.name

character. Name of the Stata label set

Value

Returns a named vector of code numbers

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.

Author

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)
#>         min    Off-Road    Roadster    City car  Family car         max 
#> -2147483647           1           2           3           4  2147483620