Miscellaneous Functions for the Analysis of Educational Assessments

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Documentation for package ‘eatTools’ version 0.7.6

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eatTools-package	eatTools: Miscellaneous Functions for the Analysis of Educational Assessments
%$$%	Extract Parts of an Object (list)
addLeadingZerosToCharInt	Add leading zeros to all columns that can be identified as integers in a character data.frame
asNumericIfPossible	Convert a Vector, Matrix or Data Frame Into Numeric Values If Possible
catch_asNumericIfPossible	Use 'asNumericIfPossible' with modified warning.
contr.wec.weighted	Calculates contrasts for a weighted factor variable based on weighted effect coding
crop	Remove Trailing and Leading Characters From Character Strings
descr	Descriptive statistics for one or several variables
do_call_rbind_withName	Row bind a list while assigning names to rows
existsBackgroundVariables	Internally needed function for consistency checks and data preparation.
facToChar	Transform columns in a data frame
gsubAll	Pattern matching and replacement
halveString	Split string exactly in two parts
insert.col	Insert Columns into a 'data.frame' at a Specific Position
makeDataFrame	Converts 'tbl' or 'data.table' objects to plain 'data.frames' for internal processing
makeTria	Reshapes an unordered covariance/correlation matrix into triangular shape
mergeAttr	Merge Two Data Frames with additional messages and maintain variable attributes
multiseq	multiple sequences
na_omit_selection	Drop rows containing missing values
num.to.cat	Transform continuous variables into ordered factors
print_and_capture	Easy integration of (small) tables into (error) messages
pwc	Part-whole correlation for numeric data frames
rbind_common	Combine data.frames by row, using only common columns.
rbind_fill_vector	Combine vectors of unequal length by row, filling missing columns with NA.
readMultisep	Read in data.frames with separator characters >=1Byte
recodeLookup	Recode a variable according to a lookup table
removeNonNumeric	Removes all non-numeric characters from a string.
removeNumeric	Removes alphanumeric characters from a string.
removePattern	Removes a specified pattern from a string.
roundDF	Round a 'data.frame'.
seq2	Sequence generation
set.col.type	Set the Class of Columns in a Data Frame
tablePattern	Creates skeleton for frequency tables with desired values
tableUnlist	Frequency table for data frames, e.g. across multiple columns
whereAre	Matches a scalar with elements of a vector.
wideToLong	Transform wide format data sets into the long format necessary for eatRep analyses
wtdTable	Computed weighted frequency tables
wtdVar	Computed weighted variance