TestDesign (version 1.2.4)

st_attrib-class: Load set/stimulus/passage attributes

Description

loadStAttrib is a data loading function to create an '>st_attrib object. loadStAttrib can read stimulus attributes a data.frame or a .csv file.

Usage

loadStAttrib(object, item_attrib, file = NULL)

Arguments

object

set attributes. Can be a data.frame or the file path of a .csv file. The content should at least include the column 'STID' referring to the column 'STID' in the data slot of the '>item_attrib object.

item_attrib

an '>item_attrib object. Use loadItemAttrib for this.

file

(deprecated) use object argument instead.

Value

loadStAttrib returns a '>st_attrib object.

• data a data.frame containing stimulus attributes.

See Also

dataset_reading for examples.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Read from data.frame:
itempool_reading   <- loadItemPool(itempool_reading_data)
itemattrib_reading <- loadItemAttrib(itemattrib_reading_data, itempool_reading)
stimattrib_reading <- loadStAttrib(stimattrib_reading_data, itemattrib_reading)

## Read from file: write to tempdir() for illustration and clean afterwards
f <- file.path(tempdir(), "stimattrib_reading.csv")
write.csv(stimattrib_reading_data, f, row.names = FALSE)
stimattrib_reading <- loadStAttrib(f, itemattrib_reading)
file.remove(f)

## TestDesign 1.1.0 - Deprecated arguments
# }
# NOT RUN {
loadStAttrib(object = "satt.csv", item_attrib) # is equivalent to
loadStAttrib(file   = "satt.csv", item_attrib) # pre 1.1.0
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }