On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Peter Maclean <pmaclean2011 at yahoo.com> wrote: It's not fully clear what you need, but, as I very vaguely recall, the code book in SPSS provided labels for what are called levels in "factors" in R, which are categorical variables. Try: "??categorical" at the prompt for starters. Then ?factor JWDougherty