Get unscored questionnaire answers from gorilla

Takes the answers from gorilla questionnaires built with Questionnaire Builder 1 (long format data), and returns them with one row per participant and one column per question. Use this for answers such as age and gender that do not need to be scored. For scales that need scoring, see gorilla_q_keyed().

Usage

gorilla_q_parse(data, qlist = NULL, preface = NULL, strip = NULL, pd = NULL)

Arguments

data

The list of data from a gorilla import, or just the questionnaire data (data_q). It has to be in long format.

qlist

The names of the questionnaires (Task.Name in gorilla) to use. If NULL, all of the questionnaires are processed.

preface

Text to add to the start of all the question names. Use "task" to add the name of the questionnaire.

strip

Which version of the answers to drop. "quant" drops the numeric _quantised columns, keeping the text answers. "qual" drops the text answers, and keeps the numeric ones (renamed to the plain question name). Default NULL keeps both.

pd

Optional data.table of participant data (with a pid column). If given, the questionnaire answers are merged into it with pid_merge().

Value

A data.table with one row per participant (pid).

Details

Gorilla gives you each answer as the text the person chose (or typed), and for many questions also as a number (the "quantised" version, with _quantised on the end of the question name). Use strip to keep one or the other. If an answer is entirely numbers, it is returned as a number. If a person answered a question more than once, the later answer is used and the people affected are listed.

See also

gorilla_q_keyed(), gorilla_q_parse_qb2()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
gorilla_q_parse(data, qlist = "basic demographics", strip = "quant")
} # }