It looks like a terminology issue. R has names for elements of a vector and for rows and columns of a matrix or data.frame, and more generally for all dimensions of multi-dimensional array.
I think your next step is to read the introductory document. Start with either of these (they are the same content) system.file("../../doc/manual/R-intro.html") system.file("../../doc/manual/R-intro.pdf") For the specific situations you described, here are examples. aa <- 1:5 names(aa) <- letters[1:5] aa names(aa) <- c("ABC","DEF","GHI","LMN","OPQ") aa bb <- matrix(1:12, 3, 4, dimnames=list(letters[1:3], LETTERS[1:4])) bb ## install.packages("Hmisc") ## if you don't have it yet library(Hmisc) latex(bb) Rich On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:17 PM, <moon...@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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.