12 Working with Labels

New in version 0.1.0 is the ability to incorporate variable labels into summary tables (but not yet all plots). If variables contain a label attribute this will be displayed automatically, to disable this set nicenames=F

Variable labels will be shown in the nicenames argument is set to TRUE (the default). Variable labels are set using the label attribute of individual variables (assigned using reportRmd or another package like haven).

reportRmd supports the addition, removal and export of labels using the following functions:

  • set_labels will set labels for a data frame from a lookup table
  • set_var_labels allows you to set individual variable labels to a data frame
  • clear_labels removes all labels from a data frame
  • export_labels extracts variable labels from a data frame and returns a data frame of variable names and variable labels