Creates a dexter project database and fills it with response data based on a .dat and .scr file
start_new_project_from_oplm(
dbname,
scr_path,
dat_path,
booklet_position = NULL,
responses_start = NULL,
response_length = 1,
person_id = NULL,
missing_character = c(" ", "9"),
use_discrim = FALSE,
format = "compressed"
)filename/path of new dexter project database (will be overwritten if already exists)
path to the .scr file
path to the .dat file
vector of start and end of booklet position in the dat file, e.g. c(1,4), all positions are counted from 1, start and end are both inclusive. If NULL, this is read from the scr file.
start position of responses in the .dat file. If NULL, this is read from the scr file.
length of individual responses, default=1
optionally, a vector of start and end position of person_id in the .dat file. If NULL, person id's will be auto-generated.
vector of character(s) used to indicate missing in .dat file, default is to use both a space and a 9 as missing characters.
if TRUE, the scores for the responses will be multiplied by the discrimination parameters of the items
not used, at the moment only the compressed format is supported.
a database connection object.
start_new_project_from_oplm builds a complete dexter database from a .dat and .scr file in the proprietary oplm format. Four custom variables are added to the database: booklet_on_off, oplm_marginal, item_local_on_off, item_global_on_off. These are taken from the .scr file and can be used in predicates in the various dexter functions.
Booklet_position and responses_start are usually inferred from the scr file but since they are sometimes misspecified in the scr file they can be overridden. Response_length is not inferred from the scr file since anything other than 1 is most often a mistake.