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Get mutli-select answers as variable labels

Source: R/extract.R
get_ms_answers_as_var_labels.Rd

When exported, multi-select questions become a set of variables whose name is a combination of the variable name and answer option value in Designer. This function extracts answer options in convenient form to either label variables in data or columns in display tables, where expected specification for labelling is of the form {variable} = {variable label}.

Usage

get_ms_answers_as_var_labels(
  json_path,
  categories_dir = NULL,
  varname,
  to_exclude = NULL
)

Arguments

json_path

Character. Full path to the Survey Solutions questionnaire JSON file (e.g., ~/my_proj/path/to/document.json).

categories_dir

Character. Path to the Categories directory of metadata and/or where the .xlsx files containing reusable categories can be found.

varname

Variable name. Bare name of variable whose answer options to extract.

to_exclude

Numeric vector. Code of answer options to exclude.

Value

Named character variable. Names are column names of the form {variable}__{value}. Values are the answer options.