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Sort data (using one or more variables) in .omv-files for the statistical spreadsheet 'jamovi' (https://www.jamovi.org)

Source: R/sort_omv.R
sort_omv.Rd

Sort data (using one or more variables) in .omv-files for the statistical spreadsheet 'jamovi' (https://www.jamovi.org)

Usage

sort_omv(
  dtaInp = NULL,
  fleOut = "",
  varSrt = c(),
  psvAnl = FALSE,
  usePkg = c("foreign", "haven"),
  selSet = "",
  ...
)

Arguments

dtaInp

Either a data frame or the name of a data file to be read (including the path, if required; "FILENAME.ext"; default: NULL); files can be of any supported file type, see Details below

fleOut

Name of the data file to be written (including the path, if required; "FILE_OUT.omv"; default: ""); if empty, the resulting data frame is returned instead

varSrt

Variable(s) that are used to sort the data frame (see Details; default: c())

psvAnl

Whether analyses that are contained in the input file shall be transferred to the output file (TRUE / FALSE; default: FALSE)

usePkg

Name of the package: "foreign" or "haven" that shall be used to read SPSS, Stata and SAS files; "foreign" is the default (it comes with base R), but "haven" is newer and more comprehensive

selSet

Name of the data set that is to be selected from the workspace (only applies when reading .RData-files)

...

Additional arguments passed on to methods; see Details below

Value

a data frame (only returned if fleOut is empty) where the input data set is sorted (according to the variables in varSrt)

Details

  • varSrt can be either a character or a character vector (with one or more variables respectively). The sorting order for a particular variable can be inverted with preceding the variable name with "-". Please note that this doesn't make sense and hence throws a warning for certain variable types (e.g., factors).

  • The ellipsis-parameter (...) can be used to submit arguments / parameters to the functions that are used for reading and writing the data. By clicking on the respective function under “See also”, you can get a more detailed overview over which parameters each of those functions take. The functions are: read_omv and write_omv (for jamovi-files), read.table (for CSV / TSV files; using similar defaults as read.csv for CSV and read.delim for TSV which both are based upon read.table), load (for .RData-files), readRDS (for .rds-files), read_sav (needs the R-package haven) or read.spss (needs the R-package foreign) for SPSS-files, read_dta (haven) / read.dta (foreign) for Stata-files, read_sas (haven) for SAS-data-files, and read_xpt (haven) / read.xport (foreign) for SAS-transport-files. If you would like to use haven, you may need to install it using install.packages("haven", dep = TRUE).

See also

sort_omv internally uses the following functions for reading and writing data files in different formats: read_omv() and write_omv() for jamovi-files, utils::read.table() for CSV / TSV files, load() for reading .RData-files, readRDS() for .rds-files, haven::read_sav() or foreign::read.spss() for SPSS-files, haven::read_dta() or foreign::read.dta() for Stata-files, haven::read_sas() for SAS-data-files, and haven::read_xpt() or foreign::read.xport() for SAS-transport-files.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
nmeInp <- system.file("extdata", "AlbumSales.omv", package = "jmvReadWrite")
nmeOut <- tempfile(fileext = ".omv")
jmvReadWrite::sort_omv(dtaInp = nmeInp, fleOut = nmeOut, varSrt = "Image")
dtaFrm <- jmvReadWrite::read_omv(nmeOut)
unlink(nmeOut)
cat(dtaFrm$Image)
# shows that the variable "Image" is sorted in ascending order
cat(is.unsorted(dtaFrm$Image))
# is.unsorted (which checks for whether the variable is NOT sorted) returns FALSE
jmvReadWrite::sort_omv(dtaInp = nmeInp, fleOut = nmeOut, varSrt = "-Image")
# variables can also be sorted in descending order by preceding them with "-"
dtaFrm <- jmvReadWrite::read_omv(nmeOut)
unlink(nmeOut)
cat(dtaFrm$Image)
# shows that the variable "Image" is now sorted in descending order
cat(is.unsorted(dtaFrm$Image))
# this first returns TRUE (the variable is not in ascending order, i.e., unsorted)
cat(is.unsorted(-dtaFrm$Image))
# if the sign of the variable is changed, it returns FALSE (i.e., the variable is
# NOT unsorted)
} # }