Biograph (version 1.0)

GLHS.Biograph: Biograph object from Blossfeld-Rohwer data rrdat.1

Description

The function GLHS.txt_to_R creates the R data file rrdat1.RData from the text file rrdat.txt. This text file is the renamed rrdat.1 file that accompanies Blossfeld-Rohwer (2002).

The function GLHS.Biograph converts the rrdat1.RData data file to a Biograph object and saves the object as the R data file GLHS.RData.

Usage

GLHS.txt_to_R (path,filename)
GLHS.Biograph ()

Arguments

path

Path to the location of rrdat1.txt

filename

The name of the text file, e.g. rrdat1.txt.

Value

• The Biograph object (data file in Biograph format)

Details

The function GLHS.Biograph creates the GLHS data file in Biograph format and adds the "trans" attribute. The function returns the Biograph object.

The Biograph package includes two data files: rrdat and GLH. The first is the original data and the second is the Biograph object.

References

For a description of the original data, see Blossfeld and Rohwer (2002)

Examples

# Move to folder with the Blossfeld-Rohwer data set.
	path <-  getwd()  # replace by the path on your computer
	# not run
	# rrdat <- GLHS.txt_to_R (path,filename="rrdat.txt")
	data (rrdat)
	head(rrdat)
	tail(rrdat)
    GLHS <- GLHS.Biograph ()