title: Using Stata Variable Labels in R
body: <p>I have a bunch of Stata .dta files that I would like to use in R.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that the variable names are not helpful to me as they are like "q0100," "q0565," "q0500," and "q0202."  However, they are labelled like "psu," "number of pregnant," "head of household," and "waypoint."</p>
  
  <p>I would like to be able to grab the labels ("psu," "waypoint," etc. . .) and use them as my variable/column names as those will be easier for me to work with.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to do this, either preferably in R, or through Stata itself?  I know of read.dta in library(foreign) but don't know if it can convert the labels into variable names.</p>