Get Label Attributes of Variables in a data.frame

Source: R/labels.R

Variable labels can be stored as a label attribute for each variable. This functions returns a named character vector with the variable labels (empty sting if not specified)

var_labels(x, fill = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a data.frame object

fill

boolean in case the label attribute does not exist if TRUE the variable names is returned, otherwise NA

Value

a named character vector with the variable labels, the names correspond to the variable names

Examples

x <- iris
var_labels(x)
#> Sepal.Length  Sepal.Width Petal.Length  Petal.Width      Species 
#>           NA           NA           NA           NA           NA 
var_labels(x) <- paste("label for", names(iris))
var_labels(x)
#>             Sepal.Length              Sepal.Width             Petal.Length 
#> "label for Sepal.Length"  "label for Sepal.Width" "label for Petal.Length" 
#>              Petal.Width                  Species 
#>  "label for Petal.Width"      "label for Species"