I was trying to get all labels in a data frame, in order to know which variables work for a regression.

I was trying the following code, but didn't work. Assuming that df is my data frame.

library(labelled)
look_for(df)

That give me this error

Error: no more error handlers available (recursive errors?); invoking 'abort' restart

Any other way to get the labels or possible fix?

CodePudding user response：

Ok. So the quick solution its to use the function attr searching for labels, this is possible to apply to all variables using lapply

Assuming that the dataframe is df

l= lapply(df, attr, "label")
l

CodePudding user response：

The labelled package offers val_labels function that is designed for that purpose:

library("labelled")
# On provided test data
val_labels(x_spss_haven_2.0)

Results

Good  Bad 
   1    8 

The obtained results are an ordinary named vector so if your desire is to arrive at a string of labels you can do the following:

library("labelled")
res <- val_labels(x_spss_haven_2.0)
names(res)
#> [1] "Good" "Bad"

^{Created on 2022-03-24 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}