get started guide?

[ran-codes]

Hi is there a get started guide for this package or do you recommend just using the StatConverter package?

(we want to generate a DDI codebook from our data for submission to ICPSR)

Thanks!

[dusadrian]

Hello @ran-codes, I am working on a proper documentation webpage for this package but it will take a little while.
StatConverter is just a simple GUI on top of DDIwR, so its use is not mandatory.

Conversion to DDI can be done directly from R, using the function convert().

Be aware, however, that the resulting DDI Codebook file covers the data description part extensively, with very little information about the other components of the Codebook (for instance the Study description). You need to manually edit those sections to add the relevant information, for a complete submission codebook.

One more important thing is the DDIwR codebook embeds the CSV data by default (something useful for conversion but not a standard recognized by ICPSR), and you can deactivate that by using the argument embed = FALSE in the same function convert().

Please take a look on that function's help page, there should be enough information to get you started.

I hope this helps,
Adrian