Create a source with items to code for Response Process Evaluation

This function creates a plain text file, a .rock source, that can be coded when conducting Response Process Evaluation.

rpe_create_source_with_items(
  data,
  iterationId,
  batchId,
  populationId,
  itemVarNames,
  metaquestionIdentifiers,
  metaquestionVarNames,
  itemContents,
  metaquestionContents,
  coderId,
  caseIds = NULL,
  outputFile = NULL,
  preventOverwriting = rock::opts$get("preventOverwriting"),
  encoding = rock::opts$get("encoding"),
  silent = rock::opts$get("silent")
)

Arguments

data: A (wide) data frame containing at least the participants' answers to the items and to the meta questions (but optionally, the iteration, batch, and population).
iterationId, batchId, populationId: If the iteration, batch, and population identifiers are contained in the data frame passed as data, the variable names holding that information for each participant; otherwise, either a single value or a vector of length nrow(data) that contains that information for each participant.
itemVarNames: The variable names with the participants' responses to the items, in a named character vector, with each element's name being the item's identifier, and each element the variable name in data holding the participants' responses to the item.
metaquestionIdentifiers: A named list of unnamed character vectors, with each character vector element specifying the identifier of a meta question, and each list element (i.e. the name of each character vector) specifying the item identifier that the meta questions in the corresponding character vector belong to.
metaquestionVarNames: The variable names with the participants' responses to the meta questions, in a named character vector, with each element's name being the meta question's identifier, and each element the variable name in data holding the participants' responses to the meta question.
itemContents: A named character vector with each item's content, with the values being the content and the names the item identifiers.
metaquestionContents: A named character vector with each meta question's content, with the values being the content and the names the meta question identifiers.
coderId: The identifier of the coder that will code this source.
caseIds: The variable name with the participants' case identifiers (i.e. a unique identifier for each participant).
outputFile: Optionally, a file to write the source to.
preventOverwriting: Whether to overwrite existing files (FALSE) or prevent that from happening (TRUE).
encoding: The encoding to use when writing the source(s).
silent: Whether to the silent (TRUE) or chatty (FALSE).

Value

The created source, as a character vector (invisibly);