R: Summarize variable information

var_view | R Documentation

## Summarize variable information

### Description

Creates a table with the name, the description, the value labels and the format for each variable in the data frame. It is similar to the variable view shown in the SPSS.

### Usage

    var_view(x)

### Arguments

`x` | The data frame whose variables we want to summarize.

### Value

A data frame containing the specified summary.

### Note

This function was built in order to summarize imported SPSS labelled data sets using `spss_import`, but it can also work with other labelled data sets.

### See Also

`spss_import`

### Examples

    a<- 1:10
    b<-rep("b",times=10)
    c<-rep(1:2,each=5)
    x<-data.frame(a,b,c)
    attr(x$a,"label")<- "descr1"
    attr(x$b,"label")<- NULL
    attr(x$c,"label")<- "descr3"
    attr(x$c,"value.labels")<-list("1"="Yes","2"="No")
    var_view(x)