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lamar provides access to the LamaPoll API. The package is currently in experimental / beta stag.

LamaPoll is a powerful online survey tool which is developed by Lamano GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin.

Functions

Currently, this package offers the following functions:

  • Listing of all surveys for a LamaPoll user account.
  • Loading data from a survey done with LamaPoll

Furthermore, the package provides an RStudio add-in for loading data from LamaPoll surveys.

Upcoming: In the future, functions will also be provided to add, delete and list respondents in surveys.

Install

You can install the package from GitLab with:

# if remotes not installed, install it first with install.packages("remotes)
library(remotes)
remotes::install_gitlab('sebastianottmann/lamar')

Getting started

Before the functions can be used, the email address of the LamaPoll user account and the API key must be stored in the options:

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

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

After the email address and API key are stored, you can use the functions in the package.

Alternatively, an RStudio add-in is available.

Citation

In case you want / have to cite my package, please use citation('lamar') for citation information.

Bugs

To report bugs, please file an issue with a reproducible example at GitLab.