Simulate data based on item table — formr_simulate_from

Once you've retrieved an item table using formr_items() you can use this function to sample data from the possible choices. At the moment random data is only generated for choice-type items and numeric ones, as these are most likely to enter data analysis. Does not yet handle dates, times, text, locations, colors

Usage

formr_simulate_from_items(item_list, n = 300)

Arguments

item_list: the result of a call to formr_connect()
n: defaults to 300

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
formr_connect(email = 'you@example.net', password = 'zebrafinch' )
sim = formr_simulate_from_items(item_list = formr_items('training_diary'), n = 100)
summary(lm(pushups ~ pullups, data = sim))
} # }
items = formr_items(path = 
system.file('extdata/gods_example_items.json', package = 'formr', mustWork = TRUE))
fakedata = formr_simulate_from_items(items, n = 20)
fakedata[1:2,]
#>   id             created               ended            modified
#> 1  1 2024-07-11 12:31:03 2024-07-11 12:33:14 2024-07-11 12:33:14
#> 2  2 2024-07-19 22:19:17 2024-07-19 22:21:56 2024-07-19 22:21:56
#>                gods religiousness_1 religiousness_2R religiousness_3
#> 1 spaghetti_monster               4                1               3
#> 2 spaghetti_monster               1                3               3
#>   religiousness_4 prefer_1 prefer_2
#> 1               1        3        5
#> 2               2        2        4