On Aug 21, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Jun Shen wrote: > David, > Thanks for your reply. > Here is some of the output of str() > > 'data.frame': 1991 obs. of 5 variables: > $ SID :Class 'labelled' atomic [1:1991] 01018 01018 01018 01018 ... > .. ..- attr(*, "label")= chr "Subject ID" > $ DV :Class 'labelled' atomic [1:1991] NA 8.52 463 364 240 278 237 167 > 83.7 260 ... > .. ..- attr(*, "label")= chr "Numeric Result in Standard Unit" > $ VISI:Class 'labelled' atomic [1:1991] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 ... > .. ..- attr(*, "label")= chr "Planned Study Day of Visit" > $ NRT :Class 'labelled' atomic [1:1991] 0 0.75 1.5 3 4 6 9 12 24 0 ... > .. ..- attr(*, "label")= chr "Nominal Relative Time" > $ TIME:Class 'labelled' atomic [1:1991] -1.1 0.8 1.5 3 4 ... > .. ..- attr(*, "label")= chr "Actual Relative Time" >
If you don't want those to be "labelled"-class, then just: dfrm2 <- data.frame( lapply(dfrm1, unclass) ) > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:53 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > On Aug 21, 2014, at 7:20 AM, Jun Shen wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > I used sasxport.get to import a SAS xpt file. Although it is a data frame > > but i can't view it through the "fix" command. Also when I see its > > structure, it brings up attributes I am not really interested in (which > > seems part of the SAS labels) and it doesn't seem to tell me the mode of > > each column. How do I suppress those attributes and view it through "fix"? > > Thanks. > > It would have helped a lot if you had offered outout of: str(dataset) > > I don't use fix() so I'm not sure I help you there. I do notice in looking at > the documentation that the function may return a list of dataframes rather > than just a dataframe, so perhaps you need to extract the dataframe object. > (Just a guess.) > > I generally look at my files with names(), and Hmisc::describe() and use > table() for the factor or character values that I expect to have manageable > numbers of discrete categories. (Using `fix()` to edit gigabyte sized objects > is the way to madness.) You should probably read the Posting Guide because > you are failing to mention that the sasxport.get() function is part of the > Hmisc package. If you want to get rid of your attributes (which is where the > labels are stored) then the attr() function should allow you to NULL them > out: > > > x <- 1:10 > > attr(x,"dim") <- c(2, 5) > > > > x > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] > [1,] 1 3 5 7 9 > [2,] 2 4 6 8 10 > > attr(x,"dim") > [1] 2 5 > > attr(x,"dim") <- NULL > > x > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > > It also appears the there is a `label<-` function, so you could probably use > that to NULL them out. > > -- > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
