CreateNLSdata: Constructor for NLSdata

In google/NLSdata: An R package for National Longitudinal Survey Analysis

Description

Converts raw NLS Investigator output to an NLSdata object

Usage

CreateNLSdata(codebook, csv.extract,
                     na.strings =  c("-1", "-2", "-3", "-4", "-5"))

Arguments

codebook	the .cdb file from the NLS Investigator export
csv.extract	the .csv file from the NLS Investigator export
na.strings	which of the missing value situations to represent as NA

Examples

library(NLSdata)
codebook <- system.file("Investigator", "Religion.cdb", package = "NLSdata")
csv.extract <- system.file("Investigator", "Religion.csv", package = "NLSdata")


nls.obj <- CreateNLSdata(codebook, csv.extract)
class(nls.obj)

names(nls.obj)

head(nls.obj$data[order(nls.obj$data$PUBID.1997), c(2, 8, 9, 11)])
nls.obj$metadata[["YSAQ_282A2.2005"]]

google/NLSdata documentation built on May 17, 2019, 7:43 a.m.