document_surveys: Document survey lists

In antaldaniel/retroharmonize: Ex Post Survey Data Harmonization

Document survey lists

Description

Document the key attributes surveys in a survey list.

Usage

document_surveys(survey_list = NULL, survey_paths = NULL, .f = NULL)

document_waves(waves)

Arguments

survey_list	A list of survey objects.
survey_paths	A vector of full file paths to the surveys to subset, defaults to NULL.
.f	A function to import the surveys with. Defaults to 'read_rds'. For SPSS files, read_spss is recommended, which is a well-parameterized version of read_spss that saves some metadata, too. For STATA files use read_dta.
waves	A list of survey objects.

Details

The function has two alternative input parameters. If survey_list is the input, it returns the name of the original source data file, the number of rows and columns, and the size of the object as stored in memory. In case survey_paths contains the source data files, it will sequentially read those files, and add the file size, the last access and the last modified time attributes.

The earlier form document_waves is deprecated. Currently called document_surveys.

Value

Returns a data frame with the key attributes of the surveys in a survey list: the name of the data file, the number of rows and columns, and the size of the object as stored in memory.

See Also

Other documentation functions: document_survey_item()

Examples

examples_dir <- system.file( "examples", package = "retroharmonize")
                        
my_rds_files <- dir( examples_dir)[grepl(".rds", 
                                   dir(examples_dir))]

example_surveys <- read_surveys(file.path(examples_dir, my_rds_files))
 
documented <- document_surveys(example_surveys)

attr(documented, "original_list")
documented

document_surveys(survey_paths = file.path(examples_dir, my_rds_files))

antaldaniel/retroharmonize documentation built on Dec. 11, 2023, 10:49 p.m.