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https://github.com/petulla/readroper

Read single and multi-card ASCII polling datasets in R
https://github.com/petulla/readroper

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Read single and multi-card ASCII polling datasets in R

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output: github_document
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```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
collapse = TRUE,
comment = "#>",
fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
out.width = "100%"
)
```
# readroper
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/petulla/readroper.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/petulla/readroper)

Use this package to read ASCII fixed-width data files from the Roper Center and other polling providers into R.

## Installation

You can install the released version of readroper from [CRAN](https://CRAN.R-project.org) with:

``` r
install.packages("readroper")
```

The development version from [GitHub](https://github.com/) is installed with:

``` r
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("petulla/readroper")
```
## Usage

To read three questions from a multicard ASCII polling file and weights and output a csv file, you'll want something like:

```r
weights df <- read_rpr(col_positions=c(1),
widths=c(3),
col_names=c('Weights'),
filepath='data.txt')
card2 <- read_rpr(col_positions=c(1,2,4),
widths=c(1,2,1),
col_names=c('Q1','Q2','Q3'),
filepath='data.txt',
card_read=1,
cards=2)
GALLUP <- cbind(weights,card2)
GALLUP$Weights = as.numeric(GALLUP$Weights)/100
write.csv(GALLUP,file='cnngallup.csv', row.names=FALSE)
```

For instructions on use see the [vignette](https://github.com/petulla/readroper/tree/master/vignettes).