clean_turk_id: Clean MTurk ID

In lorenc5/Rmturkcheck: Tools for Wave 1, Wave 2 Panel Surveys

Description

Cleans MTurk Unique ID for easier merging between waves

Usage

  clean_turk_id(mtid)

Arguments

mtid	Character vector of MTurk unique identifiers

Value

Character vector of cleaned MTurk unique identifiers, stripping whitespace, converting case to lower, converting blanks to NA. Prints vector description.

Author(s)

Loren Collingwood <[e-mail]>

References

stringr

Examples

# GENERATE RANDOM IDS #
letter_rand <- function(n=100) {
  a <- do.call(paste0, replicate(4, sample(LETTERS, n, TRUE), FALSE))
  paste0(a, sprintf("%04d", sample(9999, n, TRUE)), sample(LETTERS, n, TRUE))
}
  
# EXECUTE FUNCTION #
mtid_toy_vec <- letter_rand()

# MANIPULATE A FEW FOR PEDAGOGICAL PURPOSES (DID I SPELL THAT REAL GOOD?)
mtid_toy_vec[100] <- paste("", mtid_toy_vec[100], " ")
mtid_toy_vec[99] <- ""
mtid_toy_vec[98] <- paste("28n0", mtid_toy_vec[98], sep="_")

#EXECUTE FUNCTION #
mtid_r <- clean_turk_id(mtid_toy_vec)
head(mtid_r)

lorenc5/Rmturkcheck documentation built on June 5, 2019, 10:59 a.m.