Opens a connection to an ECLS-B data file and
returns an edsurvey.data.frame with
information about the file and data.
readECLS_B(
path = getwd(),
filename,
layoutFilename,
forceReread = FALSE,
verbose = TRUE
)An edsurvey.data.frame for the ECLS-B longitudinal dataset.
a character value to the full directory path(s) to the ECLS-B extracted fixed-with-format (.dat) set of datafiles.
a character value of the name of the fixed-width-file (.dat) data file in the specificed path to be read.
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
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 readECLS-K2011 function is running to indicate processing progress.
The default value is TRUE.
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Reads in the unzipped files downloaded from the ECLS-B longitudinal Database.
readNAEP, getData