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eeptools (version 0.2)

Convenience functions for education data

Description

Collection of convenience functions to make working with administrative records easier and more consistent. Includes functions to clean strings, identify cutpoints, and quickly combine shapefiles and dataframes for plotting. Includes four alternative themes for ggplot2 as well as a wrapper for exporting graphics for inclusion in MS Office products. Also includes three example datasets of administrative education records for learning how to process records with errors.

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install.packages('eeptools')

Monthly Downloads

1,784

Version

0.2

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Jared Knowles

Last Published

March 28th, 2013

Functions in eeptools (0.2)

decomma

Remove commas from numeric fields and return them as numerics
ggmapmerge

Fortify a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
plotForWord

Save a graphic as a Windows MetaFile
max_mis

A function to safely take the maximum of a vector that could include only NAs.
autoplot.lm

A function to replicate the basic plot function for linear models in ggplot2
defac

convert a factor to a character string safely
statamode

to mimic the mode function in Stata.
theme_dpi

a ggplot2 theme developed for PDF and PNG
thresh

function to return the maximum percentage of the cumulative sum represented by a subset of the vector
cutoff

function to calculate thresholds in a vector
age_calc

Function to calculate age from date of birth.
eeptools-package

Evaluation of educational policy tools
mapmerge

Combine an S4 polygon object with a dataframe
stuatt

Student Attributes from the Strategic Data Project Toolkit
destring

a function to convert numeric factors into numeric class objects
theme_dpi_map

a ggplot2 theme developed for PDF or SVG maps
theme_dpi_map2

an alternate ggplot2 theme developed for PDF or SVG maps
stulevel

A synthetic data set of K-12 student attributes.
theme_dpi_mapPNG

an alternate ggplot2 theme developed for PNG or JPG maps
remove_char

Function to replace an arbitrary character like a "*" in redacted data with an NA in R
dropbox_source

A function to source R scripts from Dropbox public shares
midsch

A dataframe of aggregate test scores for schools in a Midwest state.