R help - Dec 2008 - A package to set up a questionnaire & enter data

Hi R users,
Is there a Package in R to
- set up a questionnaire?
- enter data?
Best regards

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CE.KA wrote:
> Hi R users,
> Is there a Package in R to
> - set up a questionnaire?
> - enter data?
>   
Hi CE.KA,
I don't know, but I have written a general purpose questionnaire program 
in Tcl-Tk that will administer the questionnaire and record the 
responses. If you don't find anything, let me know.

Jim

Hello,

For entering data alone, you would not need a package. For simple 
questionnaires, you could write a function.

It could go like this. For example you want to record people's names and 
their ages:

# Sets up an empty database
database <<- c()

enter_data <- function() {
    show("Enter name:")
    name <- as.character(readline())
   
    show("Enter age:")
    age <- as.numeric(readline())
   
    # Appends data from one questionnaire to the
    # database
    database <<- rbind(database,data.frame(name,age))
   
    # Calls the function in order to proceed
    # with another questionnaire
   
    enter_data()
   
    # stop the function using the "stop" button when you are finished
    }

exporting "database" into a CSV or a text file should not be a problem
with write.csv() or write.csv2().



Kind regards,


David Croll

Not an R package, but EpiData is free software designed to to exactly this.
It's a wonderful piece of software.  Define fields, add annotations, provide
defaults, provide allowable values or ranges, calculate one field based on entry
to another, conditional skipping from one question to another depending on
answer, relational database capaability, double-entry verification, and more. I
don't think it exports directly to Rdata format, but it can export to plain
text, SAS, Stata, dBase, and Excel, any of which I think can be read into R.

--Chris Ryan

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:51:10 +0100
>From: David Croll <david.croll at gmx.ch>  
>Subject: Re: [R] A package to set up a questionnaire & enter data  
>To: r-help at r-project.org
>
>
>
>Hello,
>
>For entering data alone, you would not need a package. For simple 
>questionnaires, you could write a function.
>
>It could go like this. For example you want to record people's names and
>their ages:
>
># Sets up an empty database
>database <<- c()
>
>enter_data <- function() {
>    show("Enter name:")
>    name <- as.character(readline())
>   
>    show("Enter age:")
>    age <- as.numeric(readline())
>   
>    # Appends data from one questionnaire to the
>    # database
>    database <<- rbind(database,data.frame(name,age))
>   
>    # Calls the function in order to proceed
>    # with another questionnaire
>   
>    enter_data()
>   
>    # stop the function using the "stop" button when you are
finished
>    }
>
>exporting "database" into a CSV or a text file should not be a
problem
>with write.csv() or write.csv2().
>
>
>
>Kind regards,
>
>
>David Croll
>
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