title: How to access R data.frame column descriptions after read.spss
body: <p>I have imported an SPSS .sav file using the library foreign read.spss function.</p>
  
  <pre><code>dataset = read.spss("data.sav", to.data.frame=TRUE)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to access the column descriptions but can't work out how to access them programmatically. I can see these in the data viewer in RStudio, in the header just below the bold column names.</p>
  
  <p>Image here: <a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/PgIO5.png" rel="noreferrer">http://i.stack.imgur.com/PgIO5.png</a></p>