## Connect to ECLS-B Data

### Description

Opens a connection to an ECLS-B data file and returns an edsurvey.data.frame with information about the file and data.

### Usage

readECLS_B(
path = getwd(),
filename,
layoutFilename,
verbose = TRUE
)


### Arguments

 path a character value to the full directory path(s) to the ECLS-B extracted fixed-with-format (.dat) set of datafiles. filename a character value of the name of the fixed-width-file (.dat) data file in the specificed path to be read. layoutFilename a character value of the filename of either the ASCII text (.txt) layout file of the filename within the specified path, OR a character value of the filename of the SPSS syntax (.sps) layout file of the filename within the specified path forceReread a logical value to force rereading of all processed data. The default value of FALSE will speed up the read function by using existing read-in data already processed. verbose a logical value that will determine if you want verbose output while the readECLS-K2011 function is running to indicate processing progress. The default value is TRUE.

### Value

An edsurvey.data.frame for the ECLS-B longitudinal dataset.

### Author(s)

Trang Nguyen

readNAEP, getData