[R] How to print labels and how to add missing label values?

[John Kane]

Reproducibility
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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: edoardo.prestianni at gmail.com
> Sent: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:32:13 +0100
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] How to print labels and how to add missing label values?
> 
> P.S. huge typo in the e-mail object: I guess I want to print and edit
> "value labels", not "label values"
> 
> 
> 
> 2014-11-24 19:23 GMT+01:00 Edoardo Prestianni
> <edoardo.prestianni at gmail.com>
> :
> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> Sorry for the "rookie" question but this is really beyond me at the
>> moment.
>> 
>> Here is my problem
>> 
>> I have three datasets I am trying to work on. They're three panels.
>> 
>> They have this variable, 'kecnum', which is present in all the three
>> datasets, and it looks like it has been labeled in only one of the three
>> datasets.
>> 
>> When I import the datasets, R gives me a WARNING, stating
>> 
>> [code] value labels (‘kecnum’) for ‘kecnum’ are missing [/code]
>> 
>> for two datasets out of three.
>> 
>> 
>> Looking at the tables, you see that the variable grows normally...
>> (like
>> 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5...) in the datasets for which the warning
>> is
>> given.
>> For the dataset for which the warning is NOT given, I just have a list
>> of
>> "NA"
>> 
>> 
>> If I use the "describe" command, R prints out just
>> [code] kecnum : Variable label for variable kecnum [/code]
>> 
>> for all the THREE datasets.
>> 
>> 
>> Only using Rstudio I can "see" a difference in the labeling of the
>> variable between the datasets for which I am "warned" and the one for
>> which
>> I am not
>> (screenshots attatched)
>> 
>> 
>> But I have no idea on how to print that stuff out on a terminal. And
>> most
>> of all, on how to fix my datasets.
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you very much for your time.
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Edoardo Prestianni
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