[R] understanding the no-label concept

[moonkid at posteo.org]

I am new to R but a bit familiar with Stata and SPSS and a software dev.

As I understand it right, there is no possibility to give variables or
values a lable. Is that right?

Just for example. "x" need a name. And the four values (1, 2, 3, 4)
need it to.

[code]
> table(x)

1  2  3  4
17  6  6  2 
[/code]

I understand that R itself is powerful and well developed. So I try to
understand why it doesn't support labels.

And in the next step I try to understand how do you work with your data
and publish (e.g. with *TeX) it without using labels? R can put out
*TeX-code, right? I don't want to modify the outputted code manually. It
would waste my time and decreases my efficiency.