Recognise data types based on item table — formr

Once you've retrieved an item table using formr_items() you can use this function to correctly type your variables based on the item table (e.g. formr free text types will be character, but select_add_one will be factor, dates are also typed as Date, datetimes as POSIXct).

Usage

formr_recognise(
  survey_name = NULL,
  item_list = formr_items(survey_name, host = host),
  results = formr_raw_results(survey_name, host = host),
  host = formr_last_host()
)

Arguments

survey_name: case-sensitive name of a survey your account owns
item_list: an item_list, will be auto-retrieved based on survey_name if omitted
results: survey results, will be auto-retrieved based on survey_name if omitted
host: defaults to formr_last_host(), which defaults to https://formr.org

Examples

results = jsonlite::fromJSON(txt = 
system.file('extdata/gods_example_results.json', package = 'formr', mustWork = TRUE))
class(results$created)
#> [1] "character"
items = formr_items(path = 
system.file('extdata/gods_example_items.json', package = 'formr', mustWork = TRUE))
results = formr_recognise(item_list = items, results = results)
class(results$created)
#> [1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"