create_user_data: Create User Content Data

In jackobailey/BESTools: Convenience Functions for BES Data

Description

This function takes a copy of the full BES Internet Panel and returns a new data set indexed by respondent id that includes only a subset of variables.

Usage

create_user_data(
  data = NULL,
  vars = NULL,
  save = T,
  path = NULL,
  fuzzy = T,
  wave = NULL
)

Arguments

data	Data from the BES Internet Panel, 2014-2023
vars	A vector of character strings corresponding to the variable names for the given user content.
save	Whether to save the data to the disk. Takes the values TRUE or FALSE.
path	A file path as a character string specifying where to save the data if save == T.
fuzzy	If true, the function uses partial string matching. If false, it requires the complete string.
wave	A character vector corresponding to the wave that the data come from (e.g. "W19").

Value

Depending on the input file_type, either a data frame or tibble of data.

Examples

dta <-
  read_spss("BES2019_W19_Panel_v0.2.sav") %>%
  create_user_data(vars = c("user1", "user2"))

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