In muschellij2/transcriptr: Read Transcript PDF Files

if (requireNamespace("git2r")) {
  repo = git2r::repository(".")
  url = git2r::remote_url(repo, remote = "origin") 
  gh_user = basename(dirname(url))
} else {
  gh_user = "muschellij2"
}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "man/figures/README-"
)

transcriptr Package:

The goal of transcriptr is to provide intends to give the ability to read structured PDF files into data available for analysis and tabulation. Currently working for Johns Hopkins Transcripts

Installation

You can install transcriptr from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("`r gh_user`/transcriptr")

JHU Transcripts

Students

For the necessary input, please visit https://sis.jhu.edu/sswf/, log in and then go to Registration → My Grades, then click [View Unofficial Transcript]. This should download a Transcript.pdf.

Advisors

If you are an advisor, you need to go to the Advisor Tab:

knitr::include_graphics("man/figures/advisor.png")

then the Advisees List:

knitr::include_graphics("man/figures/advisees.png")

then for an individual student, click Grades:

knitr::include_graphics("man/figures/grades.png")

and then download the transcript by clicking View Unofficial Transcript:

knitr::include_graphics("man/figures/transcript.png")

Reading in the Transcript

The read_jhu_transcript will read this in and give a data.frame of the parsed output.

The Shiny app: https://jhubiostatistics.shinyapps.io/validate_curriculum/ should also do this for you, allowing you to download a CSV of your data. If you want the grades, you must check that box for the export.

muschellij2/transcriptr documentation built on July 9, 2020, 9:19 p.m.