Return survey as a tidy data frame with optional metadata

JasperHG90 commented 7 years ago

Currently, a user who queries a survey using any of the available R packages is returned a messy data frame.

Ideally, the returned data frame should:

Be Tidy
Contain information about data types (e.g. numeric, factor, character binary etc.)
Be able to deal with advanced Qualtrics features such as scoring, labelling etc.

Survey exports are provided in CSV, JSON, SPSS or XML format. Exports do not contain information about data structures, variable names, labels etc.

This information can be gathered through the 'get survey' option. Using these two data sets, we can give the user a lot of control over what/how data is returned, whether to store a copy on-disk, in what format to store data and so forth.

JasperHG90 commented 7 years ago

Currently working on this in qualtRics package. Once finished I will migrate it to this repository.

Dulani commented 7 years ago

Just found this repo (and was unaware of the related repo's that handle the Qualtrics API). I've got a fair bit of Qualtrics API code that I could contribute. I definitely have code that converts a JSON export of my survey results to a dataframe. Might have to work on it a bit to make it more generic. Let me know how I can help.

jamesdunham commented 7 years ago

Hi @Dulani, that's great to hear. We'd welcome a PR!

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