convertLabel: Transform SPSS variable and value labels into ZKD convention.

In eatModel: Educational Assessment Tools for IRT Modeling using Conquest or TAM

Description

By default, 'read.spss' from the foreign package uses variable.labels as attributes of the whole data.frame, value.labels as attribute of each specific variable in the data.frame. convertLabel provides variable and value labels as variable attributes.

Usage

convertLabel(spssList , stringsAsFactors = TRUE, useZkdConvention = TRUE, 
replaceSpecialSigns = TRUE)

Arguments

spssList	An object created by 'read.spss'. Important: Using 'read.spss', to.data.frame has to be FALSE.
stringsAsFactors	Transform character variables into factors?
useZkdConvention	Logical: Use ZKD convention, i.e. variable.labels are named 'varLabel', value.labels are named 'valLabel'.
replaceSpecialSigns	Logical: Replace special signs (non-ASCII characters)?

Value

data frame.

Author(s)

Sebastian Weirich

eatModel documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:49 p.m.