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eeptools (version 0.3.1)

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')

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0.3.1

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Jared Knowles

Last Published

February 23rd, 2014

Functions in eeptools (0.3.1)

destring

a function to convert numeric factors into numeric class objects
theme_dpi_map

a ggplot2 theme developed for PDF or SVG maps
max_mis

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

Function to calculate the number of times a student has changed schools.
stuatt

Student Attributes from the Strategic Data Project Toolkit
age_calc

Function to calculate age from date of birth.
remove_char

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

to mimic the mode function in Stata.
cleanTex

Remove Unwanted LaTeX files after building document
ggmapmerge

Fortify a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
midsch

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

Create a lag
autoplot.lm

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

Save a graphic as a Windows MetaFile
cutoff

function to calculate thresholds in a vector
theme_dpi

a ggplot2 theme developed for PDF and PNG
eeptools-package

Evaluation of educational policy tools
thresh

function to return the maximum percentage of the cumulative sum represented by a subset of the vector
mapmerge2

Combine an S4 polygon object with a dataframe
theme_dpi_map2

an alternate ggplot2 theme developed for PDF or SVG maps
mapmerge

Combine an S4 polygon object with a dataframe
defac

convert a factor to a character string safely
theme_dpi_mapPNG

an alternate ggplot2 theme developed for PNG or JPG maps
decomma

Remove commas from numeric fields and return them as numerics
stulevel

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

Generate prediction intervals for model functions
dropbox_source

A function to source R scripts from Dropbox public shares