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psychTools (version 2.6.4)

Tools to Accompany the 'psych' Package for Psychological Research

Description

Support functions, data sets, and vignettes for the 'psych' package. Contains several of the biggest data sets for the 'psych' package as well as four vignettes. A few helper functions for file manipulation are included as well. For more information, see the web page.

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install.packages('psychTools')

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2.6.4

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GPL (>= 2)

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William Revelle

Last Published

May 4th, 2026

Functions in psychTools (2.6.4)

11 emotional variables from Burt (1915)

Distances between 11 US cities

Correlations of 14 ability tests from the Spanish version of the WAIS (taken from Colom et al. 2002.)

Convert a data frame, correlation matrix, or factor analysis output to a LaTeX or rtf table

Bond's Logical Operations Test -- BLOT

Eminence of 69 American Psychologists

Galton's example of the relationship between height and 'cubit' or forearm length

A data set from Cushny and Peebles (1905) on the effect of three drugs on hours of sleep, used by Student (1908)

Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) data for 3570 participants

Sort (order) a dataframe or matrix by multiple columns

Counting Hare votes (Ranked choice voting)

7 attitude items about Global Warming policy from Erik Nisbet

A data.frame of the Galton (1888) height and cubit data set.

13 personality scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory and Big 5 inventory

75 mood items from the Motivational State Questionnaire for 3896 participants

16 multiple choice IQ items

Galton's Mid parent child height data

US family income from US census 2008

holzinger.swineford

The raw and transformed data from Holzinger and Swineford, 1939

Useful utility functions for file/directory exploration and manipulation.

75 mood items from the Motivational State Questionnaire for 3032 unique participants

3 Measures of ability: SATV, SATQ, ACT

psychTools: datasets and utility functions to accompany the psych package

Salary example from Cohen, Cohen, Aiken and West (2003)

NEO correlation matrix from the NEO_PI_R manual

Recode or rearrange or reshape variables or values to new values

State Anxiety data from the PMC lab over multiple occasions.

Shortcuts for reading from the clipboard or a file

Convert all Rd files in a directory to HTML files in a new directory

17 anthropometric measures from the USAF showing a general factor

A sample from the SAPA Personality Inventory including an item dictionary and scoring keys.

Select a subset of rows (subjects) meeting one or more criteria for columns

Paired comparison of preferences for 9 vegetables

Correlation matrix of 135 self report and 30 peer report personality items

Project Talent data set from Marion Spengler and Rodica Damian

Combine two matrices or data frames into one based upon variable labels

Gender Role Self Concept data from Athenstaedt (2003)

16 ability items scored as correct or incorrect.

25 Personality items representing 5 factors

BFI.adjectives.dictionary

Dictionary for the 100 Big Five Adjectives

Pollack et al (2012) correlation matrix for mediation example

Data from Gruber et al, 2020, Study 2: Gender Related Attributes Survey

The Schutz correlation matrix example from Shapiro and ten Berge

Two data sets of affect and arousal scores as a function of personality and movie conditions

A 29 x 29 matrix that produces weird factor analytic results

big5.100.adjectives

100 adjectives describing the "big 5" for 502 subjects