tidy_sem {tidySEM}

Create a tidy_sem object

Description

Create an object of class tidy_sem, which has the following elements:

• dictionary An overview of the variables in the tidy_sem object, and their assignment to scale/latent variables.

• data Optionally, the data.frame containing the data referenced in $dictionary.

• syntax Optionally, syntax defining a SEM-model by reference to the variables contained in $data.

Usage

tidy_sem(x, split = "_")

Arguments

x

An object for which a method exists, e.g., a vector of variable names, or a data.frame.

split

Character. Defining the regular expression used by strsplit to separate variable names into 1) the name of the scale/construct and 2) the number (or name) of the item.

Details

When tidy_sem is called on a character string or data.frame, it attempts to assign variables to superordinate scale/latent variables based on the variable name and the splitting character defined in the split argument. Thus, the function will assign the variable "scale_01" to a scale/latent variable called "scale" when split = "_". Alternatively, if the variable name is "construct.1", the split character "\." separates the "construct" name from item number "1". The character "." is escaped with a double backslash, because it is a special character in regular expressions.

Value

An object of class "tidy_sem"

Author(s)

Caspar J. van Lissa

Examples

tidy_sem(c("bfi_1", "bfi_2", "bfi_3", "bfi_4", "bfi_5",
"macqj_1", "macqj_2", "macqj_3", "macqj_4", "macqj_5", "macqj_6",
"macqj_7", "macqj_8", "macqj_9", "macqj_10", "macqj_11",
"macqj_12", "macqj_13", "macqj_14", "macqj_15", "macqj_16",
"macqj_17", "macqj_18", "macqj_19", "macqj_20", "macqj_21",
"macqr_1", "macqr_2", "macqr_3", "macqr_4", "macqr_5", "macqr_6",
"macqr_7", "macqr_8", "macqr_9", "macqr_10", "macqr_11",
"macqr_12", "macqr_13", "macqr_14", "macqr_15", "macqr_16",
"macqr_17", "macqr_18", "macqr_19", "macqr_20", "macqr_21", "sex"))
tidy_sem(c("bfi_1", "bfi_2", "bfi_3", "bfi_4", "bfi_5",
"mac_q_j_1", "mac_q_j_2", "mac_q_j_3", "mac_q_j_4", "mac_q_j_5", "mac_q_j_6",
"mac_q_j_7", "mac_q_j_8", "mac_q_j_9", "mac_q_j_10", "mac_q_j_11",
"mac_q_j_12", "mac_q_j_13", "mac_q_j_14", "mac_q_j_15", "mac_q_j_16",
"mac_q_j_17", "mac_q_j_18", "mac_q_j_19", "mac_q_j_20", "mac_q_j_21",
"mac_q_r_1", "mac_q_r_2", "mac_q_r_3", "mac_q_r_4", "mac_q_r_5", "mac_q_r_6",
"mac_q_r_7", "mac_q_r_8", "mac_q_r_9", "mac_q_r_10", "mac_q_r_11",
"mac_q_r_12", "mac_q_r_13", "mac_q_r_14", "mac_q_r_15", "mac_q_r_16",
"mac_q_r_17", "mac_q_r_18", "mac_q_r_19", "mac_q_r_20", "mac_q_r_21"))