An R package developed by the Pew Research Center Methods team for working with survey data.

The Methods team at Pew Research Center is proud to announce the release of version 1.0 of pewmethods, an R package containing various functions that we use in our day-to-day work with survey data. The package was envisioned as a way to reuse and maintain code and share it internally with other researchers around the Center. But since many of the problems that these functions were designed to solve are not unique to Pew Research Center projects, we are making the pewmethods package publicly available for other researchers who might find it useful, too.

Survey data is a bit different from other kinds of data in that it frequently needs to be weighted to represent a larger population. The pewmethods package can help you go through the steps for creating basic survey weights, as well as display weighted estimates of categorical variables, not to mention the various cleaning, recoding, combining and collapsing tasks in between. In this way, our package complements the excellent survey package as well as the tidyverse set of R packages, which are great for data manipulation.

An overview of what's in the pewmethods package and how it works, along with example applications, can be found by calling vignette("pewmethods") after installation.

R 3.5 or greater

1. Install and load the devtools package.

2. Install pewmethods via:

install_github("pewresearch/pewmethods", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Vignettes require the rmarkdown and tidyverse packages. You can install the package without vignettes by setting build_vignettes to FALSE.

In addition to the license, Users must abide by the following conditions:

• User may not use the Center's logo.

• User may not use the Center's name in any advertising, marketing or promotional materials.

• User may not use the licensed materials in any manner that implies, suggests, or could otherwise be perceived as attributing a particular policy or lobbying objective or opinion to the Center, or as a Center endorsement of a cause, candidate, issue, party, product, business, organization, religion or viewpoint.

This code is provided as-is for use in your own projects. You are free to submit issues and pull requests with any questions or suggestions you may have. We will do our best to respond within a 30-day time period.

Pew Research Center, 2020, "pewmethods" Available at: github.com/pewresearch/pewmethods.

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