Opens a connection to a National Longitudinal Study of the High
School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) cohort data file and
returns an edsurvey.data.frame
with
information about the file and data.
readNLS72(
NLS7286_PRI_FilePath,
NLS7286_SASSyntax_Path,
forceReread = FALSE,
verbose = TRUE
)
a character value to the main study derived
analyticial data file (NLS7286_REV.PRI).
Located within the REVISED_ASCII
folder.
a character value to the SAS syntax file for
parsing the NLS7286_REV.PRI
data file.
Located within the SAS_EXTRACT_LOGIC
folder.
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.
a logical value that will determine if you want verbose output
while the readNLS72
function is running to
indicate processing progress.
The default value is TRUE
.
an edsurvey.data.frame
for the National Longitudinal Study of the
High School Class of 1972 longitudinal dataset
Reads in the specified NLS7286_SASSyntax_Path
file to parse
the NLS7286_PRI_FilePath
file.
A cached data file and metadata file will be saved in the same
directory and filename as the NLS7286_PRI_FilePath
file,
having new file extensions of .csv and .meta, respectively.