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, <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.