Re: [R] Primer for working with survey data in R

2017-11-13 Thread Albin Blaschka
Am 11.11.2017 20:56, schrieb Kevin Taylor: Also, SPSS has some built in functionality for entering the meta-data for your survey, e.g. the possible values for items, the text of the question, etc. Hello! Maybe the sjmisc together with the sjplot package are helpful - specially the

Re: [R] Primer for working with survey data in R

2017-11-12 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear Kevin The nearest equivalent to the SPSS VALUE LABELS is the labels in factor(). If you want to attach labels to a whole question like VARIABLE LABELS then you may want to use an attribute using attr() Michael On 11/11/2017 19:56, Kevin Taylor wrote: I am taking a behavioral stats grad

Re: [R] Primer for working with survey data in R

2017-11-11 Thread David Winsemius
t this helps, > John > >> -Original Message- >> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Taylor >> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 2:57 PM >> To: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: [R] Primer for working with survey data in R &g

Re: [R] Primer for working with survey data in R

2017-11-11 Thread Fox, John
gt; From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Taylor > Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 2:57 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Primer for working with survey data in R > > I am taking a behavioral stats graduate class and the instructor is us

Re: [R] Primer for working with survey data in R

2017-11-11 Thread Jeff Newmiller
You really should have pointed out that you cross-posted this question [1] so we wouldn't repeat things. You were already pointed at the task view on this subject there. Be sure to look for vignettes in the relevant packages. I cannot point you to domain-specific examples, though I came across s

Re: [R] Primer for working with survey data in R

2017-11-11 Thread David Winsemius
> On Nov 11, 2017, at 11:56 AM, Kevin Taylor wrote: > > I am taking a behavioral stats graduate class and the instructor is using > SPSS. I'm trying to follow along in R. > > Recently in class we started working with scales and survey data, computing > Cronbach's Alpha, reversing values for rev

Re: [R] Primer for working with survey data in R

2017-11-11 Thread Bert Gunter
Dunno. But ... 1. Web Search (eg on "Survey tutorials using R" and similar) 2. R's survey package, which includes vignettes. 3. CRAN Task View: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/SocialSciences.html HTH. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep

[R] Primer for working with survey data in R

2017-11-11 Thread Kevin Taylor
I am taking a behavioral stats graduate class and the instructor is using SPSS. I'm trying to follow along in R. Recently in class we started working with scales and survey data, computing Cronbach's Alpha, reversing values for reverse coded items, etc. Also, SPSS has some built in functionality