df4kbd: Produces a data.frame from the keyboard.

In rbsa: Ancillary Functions for R Programming

Description

This function issues repeatedly a series of questions onto the screen and from the answers builds a data.frame.

Usage

 
  df4kbd(def) 

Arguments

def

A named list describing the different variables of the data frame to produce. Its names give the names of the variables. Each component of def are the list of arguments to provide to function inquiry to get the values for each individual. More precisely question which is compulsory, help (default NULL), a7type (compulsory either numeric or character), a7possibilities (default NULL).

Details

Questions are proposed with the function inquiry. Activating the 'stop' in any of the questions is interpreted as the end of the data capture.

Value

The resulting data frame, possibly with zero row when no individual was correctly recorded.

Examples

 
  nom <- list(question="The name?",a7type="character"); 
  edad <- list(question="How old?",a7type="numeric"); 
  defi <- list(NAME=nom,AGE=edad); 
  ## Not run: df4kbd(defi) 

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