Connect to HS&B Study Senior Data

Opens a connection to a High School & Beyond 1980–1986 Senior cohort data file and returns an edsurvey.data.frame with information about the file and data.

Usage

readHSB_Senior(
  HSR8086_PRI_FilePath,
  HSR8086_SASSyntax_Path,
  forceReread = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

HSR8086_PRI_FilePath: a character value to the main study-derived analytical data file (HSR8086_REV.PRI). Located within the REVISED_ASCII Folder.
HSR8086_SASSyntax_Path: a character value to the SAS syntax file for parsing the HSR8086_REV.PRI data file. Located within the SAS_EXTRACT_LOGIC Folder.
forceReread: a logical value to force rereading of all processed data. The default value of FALSE will speed up the read function by using existing read-in data already processed.
verbose: a logical value that will determine if you want verbose output while the readHSB_Senior function is running to indicate processing progress. The default value is TRUE.

Value

an edsurvey.data.frame for the HS&B Senior 1980–1986 longitudinal dataset

Details

Reads in the specified HSR8086_SASSyntax_Path file to parse the HSR8086_PRI_FilePath file. A cached data file and metadata file will be saved in the same directory and filename as the HSR8086_PRI_FilePath file, having new file extensions of .txt and .meta, respectively.

Please note the original source repcode variable has been split into two variables named repcode_str for the stratum value and repcode_psu for the primary sampling unit (PSU) value in the resulting cache data.

Author

Tom Fink

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
wrkFld <- "~/HSB/SENIOR"

dataPath <- file.path(wrkFld, "REVISED_ASCII", "HSR8086_REV.PRI")
sasPath <- file.path(wrkFld, "SAS_EXTRACT_LOGIC", "HSBsr_READ_HSR8086.SAS")

# with verbose output as default
hsbSR <- readHSB_Senior(dataPath, sasPath)

# silent output
hsbSR <- readHSB_Senior(dataPath, sasPath, verbose = FALSE)

# force cache update
hsbSR <- readHSB_Senior(dataPath, sasPath, forceReread = TRUE)
} # }