desc_fix: Find and replace text in an existing variable description...
In mgunther87/ipumsPMA: Common functions for IPUMS PMA staff

Description Usage Arguments Details Author(s)

Use the "find" arguments to identify a string of text to be overwritten the "replace" argument. Include this function in a loop to quickly replace text in several documents.

desc_fix(
  path_or_variable,
  find_text,
  replace_text,
  find_name,
  replace_name,
  write = T,
  open_on_write = F
)

`path_or_variable`	Character: Either a full path to a description file or the variable name associated with a description file currently in the PMA variables folder
`find_text`	A string of text to find in the desc file
`replace_text`	A string of text to replace find_text
`find_name`	Text to find in the variable name only
`replace_name`	Text to replace from find_name; if find_name is not provided, the entire variable name will be replaced. The new file will be renamed accordingly.
`write`	Logical: defaults TRUE. Use FALSE to only preview (this preview will also appear if TRUE).
`open_on_write`	Logical: defaults FALSE. If TRUE, file will open in Word (or default txt reader) via system call.

As with desc_make, the output of this function will be .doc for mac users, but .txt for windows users (these must be manually saved as .doc files). This may be changed in future updates (when Matt learns how to use pandoc).

Matt Gunther

mgunther87/ipumsPMA documentation built on Aug. 1, 2020, 12:22 a.m.