[R] understanding the no-label concept

[Bert Gunter]

No, you are wrong. Read the docs! -- start with "An Introduction to R"
which ships with R.

Please do not post further until after you have done your homework.

x <- c(a=1,b=2,c=3)

See also ?names.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
(650) 467-7374

"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
is certainly not wisdom."
Clifford Stoll




On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:17 AM,  <moonkid at posteo.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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