I've imported survey data previously used in SPSS into R and I'm trying to work with them now. I need most variables to be numeric, but haven imports them as labelled variables. Whenever I convert them into numeric variables using the mutate / across function, the variable and value labels get lost.
Most variables have questions like "Do you agree with this statement" and then the answer is on a scale like 1 - strongly disagree to 7 - strongly agree.
So it would be awesome to have them as numeric variables without losing the labels.