read.sss: Reads a triple-s XML (asc) data file, as specified by the triple-s XML standard.
Description
This function reads and parses a .sss XML metadata file
as well as its associated .asc data file. The .sss
standard defines a standard survey structure
Usage
read.sss(sssFilename, ascFilename, sep = "_")
Arguments
sssFilename
Character string: name of .sss file
containing the survey metadata
ascFilename
Character string: name of .asc file
containing survey data
sep
Character vector defining the string that
separates question and subquestion labels, e.g.
c("Q_1", "Q_2")
Value
A data frame with one element (column) for each variable
in the data set. The data.frame contains several
attributes:
[object Object]