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Import Data Generated by SurveyXact

Source: R/read_surveyxact.R
read_surveyxact.Rd

First export the data from SurveyXact either as Excel or a set of CSV-files in European format (semicolon-sep). Then import using this function while setting variable labels and value labels automatically. Can then use labelled-package or other functions in this package for further processing.

Usage

read_surveyxact(
  filepath = c(dataset = "dataset.csv", structure = "structure.csv", labels =
    "labels.csv"),
  trim_ws = FALSE
)

Arguments

filepath

A character string with a path to an Excel file, or a character vector with paths to the dataset.csv, structure.csv and labels.csv-files.

trim_ws

Logical, default is FALSE. Whether to remove leading and ending whitespace from all files.

Value

data.frame.

Examples

dataset <- system.file("extdata", "ex_survey2_tab_utf16", "dataset.csv",
  package = "readSX", mustWork = TRUE
)
labels <- system.file("extdata", "ex_survey2_tab_utf16", "labels.csv",
  package = "readSX", mustWork = TRUE
)
structure <- system.file("extdata", "ex_survey2_tab_utf16", "structure.csv",
  package = "readSX", mustWork = TRUE
)
ex_survey2_tab_utf16 <-
  read_surveyxact(filepath = c(
    dataset = dataset,
    labels = labels,
    structure = structure
  ))