Get Survey Variable Labels — get_variable

Return variable labels from a dataset

get_variable_labels(dataset, return_all = TRUE)

Arguments

dataset: Can be either the file path to a dataset, the dataset as a `data.frame` or the filenames of datasets. See details for more information
return_all: Logical whether to return all variables (TRUE) or only those with labels.

Value

A data.frame consisting of the variable name and labels.

Details

Returns variable names and their labels from a dataset. You can pass for the `data` argument any of the following:

The file path to a saved dataset. This would be the direct output of get_datasets
A read in dataset, i.e. produced by using readRDS to load a dataset from a file path produced by get_datasets
Dataset filenames. These can be found as one of the returned fields from dhs_datasets. If these datasets have not been downloaded before this will download them for you.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# get the model datasets included with the package
model_datasets <- model_datasets

# download one of them
g <- get_datasets(dataset_filenames = model_datasets$FileName[1])

# we can pass the list of filepaths to the function
head(get_variable_labels(g))

# or we can pass the full dataset
r <- readRDS(g[[1]])
head(get_variable_labels(r))
} # }