Manipulating Labelled Data

Work with labelled data imported from 'SPSS' or 'Stata' with 'haven' or 'foreign'. This package provides useful functions to deal with "haven_labelled" and "haven_labelled_spss" classes introduced by 'haven' package.

labelled

This package is built on the new classes haven_labelled and haven_labelled_spss introduced by haven package to handle labelled variables imported from SPSS, Stata and SAS. The labelled package propose several functions to manipulate such vectors and their metadata: variable labels, value labels and user-defined missing values.

Installation & Documentation

To install stable version:

install.packages("labelled")

Documentation of stable version: https://larmarange.github.io/labelled/

To install development version:

remotes::install_github("larmarange/labelled")

Documentation of development version: https://larmarange.github.io/labelled/dev/

Introduction

Read the vignette at https://larmarange.github.io/labelled/articles/intro_labelled.html

Cheatsheet

Some general guidelines

1. Functions are intended to support labelled metadata structures only. However, to_labelled() method allows to convert metadata from foreign and memisc packages.
2. Functions should, by default, modify metadata only (i.e. classes and attributes), except if explicitly expressed by the user.