read.MD: Read in Meta Analysis Data

In trinker/metaDAT: Tools for Data Management in Meta-Analysis

Description

Read in meta-analysis data from a .bib file created in jabRef (may be any text based file).

Usage

  read.MD(file, entry.name = "@META", out.file = NULL,
    rm.coder = FALSE, rm.timestamp = TRUE,
    rm.comment = TRUE, detect.class = TRUE,
    stringsAsFactors = FALSE, exclude.vars = .exclvars)

  .exclvars

Arguments

file	The name of the file which the data are to be read from.
entry.name	A character string indicating the type of entry from the .bib file. Default is "@META".
out.file	A character string naming the file to print to.
rm.coder	logical. If TRUE removes the coder name from the meta list.
rm.timestamp	logical. If TRUE removes the timestamp from the MDlist.
rm.comment	logical. If TRUE removes the ## comments from the MDlist.
detect.class	logical. If TRUE detects the class of the character string(s) for each variable.
stringsAsFactors	logical. Should character vectors be converted to factors if detect.class is TRUE?
exclude.vars	A character vector of variables to exclude. Default is .exclvars, a predefined vector of exclusion variables.

Format

chr [1:16] "title" "publisher" "shorttitle" "volume" "number" "pages" "month" "note" "crossref" "keywords" "file" "doi" "url" "comment" ...

Value

Returns a list structure with information for each study (refered as MDlist).

Examples

path <- system.file("extdata/bibTest.bib", package = "metaDAT")
read.MD(path)
read.MD(path, rm.comment=FALSE)
evars <- c("coder", "time", "ee_phi")
read.MD(path, exclude.vars = evars)

trinker/metaDAT documentation built on May 31, 2019, 8:52 p.m.