[datatable-help] Variable labels suggestion

[Griffith Rees]

I think this page quite succinctly describes this issue:
http://www.statmethods.net/input/variablelables.html

I dunno how hard it would be to add this to data.tables or whether
many other people would find it useful, but it's something I've always
thought a galling omission from the data.frame model. How hard it
would then be to get that to interoperate with something like mtable
or toLatex would be a real win, but just being able to associate a
string with a column as a label beyond the variable name would
certainly be a start.

thanks,

-griff

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Griffith Rees
Sociology DPhil Candidate
Oxford University
CABDyN Complexity Centre
http://www.cabdyn.ox.ac.uk