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Load data from LamaPoll survey

Source: vignettes/articles/get_lamapoll_data.Rmd
get_lamapoll_data.Rmd

Data from LamaPoll surveys can be loaded using the get_lamapoll_data() function.

Set Options

Before the data can be loaded, an email address and a LamaPoll API key must be entered in the options as a first step. The email address must be mapped to a LamaPoll account.

options(lamamail = "your-e-mail-adress")
options(lamaapi = "your-api-key")

Attention: Please never share R scripts that contain your LamaPoll API key.

Get a list of your LamaPoll surveys

You can use the get_surveylist function to retrieve a list of LamaPoll surveys associated with your user account. The output is in a data frame.

surveys_online <- get_surveylist(status = "online")

You can use the status property to determine whether only questionnaires that are online, offline or in progress (inwork) are displayed. The default value is online.

Load Data

After the options have been set, the function for loading the data can be executed:

testdata <- get_lamapoll_data(poll_name = "your-poll-name")

Under poll_name the name of the LamaPoll survey must be specified. In the default settings all complete responses are loaded.

Specify responses that are loaded

The responses that are loaded can be customized with the properties of the function. The following options are available:

  • only_completed: If this property is set to TRUE (default) only complete responses are loaded. If the property is set to FALSE, all responses are loaded (started and completed).