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Preparation for the Training School 11 years, 8 months ago #403

Ioannis Andreadis
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The trainees should have their own laptops with them.

They should have installed the following open source programs:

Open Office: Go to www.openoffice.org/ click download and select the suitable version for your operating system.
RStudio Go to www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/ and from the available installers download the suitable version for your operating system
and R from www.r-project.org/
A good text editor (such as Notepad+) sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/
and a html editor (e.g. a trial version of Adobe Dreamweaver).

For most of the exercises we will use R-studio and we will have to work with additional R packages. Make sure you are able to install R packages to your RStudio/R installation. For instance, you will need to install the library (R package) foreign.

To install foreign R package using RStudio: click Tools - Install packages, and in the second field (under the label Packages:) type foreign and click Install.

Some of the datasets will be avaialble at:

Andreadis, Ioannis. Paradata from Political Web Surveys. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-09-26. doi.org/10.3886/E17816V1

To test that your R-Studio and R and foreign package are OK please do the following:

1. Create a working directory for the Training School. Prefer a directory directly under the root C: eg C:/WSPDS
2. Go to www.openicpsr.org/repoEntity/show/17955 and download the dataset in your working directory and extract it. To download the file you have to accept the terms of use and type your email address.
3. In RStudio, click Session - Set Working Directory - Choose directory and select the working directory you have created in step 1.
4. In RStudio, type the following commands:

library(foreign)
paradata<-read.spss("hmv201410percent-17956.sav", to.data.frame=TRUE, reencode="UTF-8")

Do not pay attention to warning messages about unrecognized record types

 names(paradata)

You should get a list with 81 names (variables in the file)

[1] "q45"           "q2"            "q46"           "q47"          
 [5] "q5"            "q48"           "q7"            "q49"          
 [9] "q50"           "q51"           "q52"           "q53"          
[13] "q54"           "q14"           "q15"           "q16"          
[17] "q55"           "q18"           "q19"           "q20"          
[21] "q21"           "q56"           "q57"           "q24"          
[25] "q25"           "q58"           "q59"           "q28"          
[29] "q60"           "q61"           "q62"           "q63"          
[33] "q64"           "q8"            "q41"           "q11"          
[37] "q12"           "t0"            "t1"            "t2"           
[41] "t3"            "t4"            "t5"            "t6"           
[45] "t7"            "t8"            "t9"            "t10"          
[49] "t11"           "t12"           "t13"           "t14"          
[53] "t15"           "t16"           "t17"           "t18"          
[57] "t19"           "t20"           "t21"           "t22"          
[61] "t23"           "t24"           "t25"           "t26"          
[65] "t27"           "t28"           "t29"           "t30"          
[69] "t31"           "sex"           "age"           "edu"          
[73] "interest"      "pvote"         "vote"          "conf"         
[77] "scorex"        "scorey"        "device_pm_n"   "device_type_n"
[81] "device_name_n"

To install other R packages using RStudio repeat the steps you have followed for the R package foreign: click Tools - Install packages, and in the second field (under the label "Packages") type the name of the R package and click Install.

Please install the R package: car

Last Edit: 11 years, 8 months ago by Ioannis Andreadis.

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Re: Preparation for the Training School 11 years, 8 months ago #404

ulf OFFLINE Senior Boarder Posts: 45 Karma: 0	Thank you, Ioannis! I notice the instructions are for someone using a Windows PC ("C:") - could you please add what is different for those using Macs and Linux/Unix? Many thanks!
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Re: Preparation for the Training School 11 years, 8 months ago #405

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Dear participant in the training school:
as for our part of the training sessions I recommend the following two articles to learn a bit about the background and chances in using paradata:

Stieger, S., & Reips, U.-D. (2010). What are participants doing while filling in an online questionnaire: A paradata collection tool and an empirical study. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(6), 1488–1495. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.05.013 (pre-print version available from iscience.deusto.es/wp-content/uploads/20...rReips_corrproof.pdf

The article is discussed in

the British Psychological Society's Research Digest (bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/09...ally-up-to-when.html), reblogged by Scintilla from Nature Publishing group (scintilla.nature.com/node/1004570)
Research Design Connections (www.researchdesignconnections.com/conten...internet-survey-they’re-09-15-10)
The Jury Room (cat with paw on mouse: keenetrial.com/blog/2010/10/20/should-yo...nline-jury-research/)
Ríncon de la Psicología (cat couching on laptop: rincon-psicologia.blogspot.com/2010/11/n...e-una-nueva-via.html)
PsychiatryFun (cat couching on laptop: psychiatryfun.blogspot.com.es/2010/09/wh...ally-up-to-when.html).

Reips, U.-D., & Stieger, S. (2004). Scientific LogAnalyzer: A Web-based tool for analyses of server log files in psychological research. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36, 304-311. Available from www.uni-konstanz.de/iscience/reips/pubs/...eips_Stieger2004.pdf

Happy readings!