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Re: SPLUS: variable labels & pretty tables

To: Health Maps <healthmaps@home.com>
Subject: Re: SPLUS: variable labels & pretty tables
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:29:35 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: s-plus <s-news@wubios.wustl.edu>
In-reply-to: <NPELLJGFJFGIOAHJFBAEGEIPCKAA.healthmaps@home.com>
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Health Maps wrote:

> I guess its not possible to have variable labels "Birth Weight"  would be
> more useful than brt.wgt, how can that be handled?

It is.  You need check.names=F on data.frame, and to use quotes around
variable names with spaces in.  (That works most places, but not all.)

> 
> Splus is perfect for what I need to do (the spatial stats package) but in
> the end I need to make decent looking tables, how do Splus users handle
> that? Looks like I am stuck with editing SPLUS output in word.
> 
> Richard E. Hoskins
> WA State Department of Health
> 1102 Quince Street
> Olympia, WA 98504-7812
> richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov <mailto:richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov>
> tel:  (360) 236 - 4270
> fax: (360) 236 - 4245
> GMT -8
> 
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