QualtricsPreprocess: A Qualtrics Preprocessing Function

In ajhmohr/datadictionary: Create TXT Data Dictionary from R Data Attributes

Description

This function processes a Qualtrics data file that has been read into R (assumes a legacy View Results format). The first 10 variables automatically added by Qualtrics are renamed with their labels, labels are removed from the dataset and used to create a variable label file, a time taken variable is calculated based on the start and end times, and any identifying or otherwise unwanted variables are removed (specific variable names can be specified in function; see below). It writes a comma-separated (.csv) file of the processed data and a tab-separated (.txt) data dictionary of the variable labels to the working directory.

Usage

QualtricsPreprocess(x, remove.std.var = TRUE, remove.additional = "",
  data.file = "ProcessedDataset.csv", label.file = "VariableLabels.txt")

Arguments

x	A dataframe. Assumes dataframe is a Qualtrics .csv file that has been read into R with read.csv.
remove.std.var	Logical. Whether the identifying variables added by Qualtrics (Name, EmailAddress, IPAddress, LocationLatitude, LocationLongitude, and LocationAccuracy) should be removed from the processed data. Defaults to TRUE.
remove.additional	A character or vector of characters containing the names of additional variables to remove from the processed file. This can include other direct identifiers recorded in the Qualtrics survey.
data.file	File name for the processed data file. String; should end in ".csv". Defaults to "ProcessedDataset.csv" in working directory.
label.file	File name for the label file. String; should end in ".txt". Defaults to "VariableLabels.txt" in working directory.

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