[R] Approach for Storing Result Data

[Jeff Newmiller]

Seems pretty normal except that your one-by-one lookup process usually gets old eventually, and comparing results is much easier if you merge the study data with the lookup data all at once and then use aggregate() (or any of numerous equivalents from contributed packages) to collect results or color/linetype/panel/etc plotted graphical presentations with lattice or ggplot2.
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On March 8, 2017 7:27:08 AM PST, G.Maubach at weinwolf.de wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>today I have a more general question concerning the approach of storing
>
>different values from the analysis of multiple variables.
>
>My task is to compare distributions in a universe with distributions
>from 
>the respondents using a whole bunch of variables. Comparison shall be
>done 
>on relative frequencies (proportions).
>
>I was thinking about the structure I should store the results in and
>came 
>up with the following:
>
>-- cut --
>
>library(stringi)
>
># Result data frame
># Some sort of tidytidy data set where
># each value is stored as an identity.
># This way all values for all variables could be stored in
># one unique data structure.
># If an additional variable added for the name of the
># research one could also build result data set across
># surveys.
># Values for measure could be "number" for 'raw' values or
># "freq" for frequencies/counts.
># Values for unit could be "n" for 'numbers' and
># "%" for percentages.
>d_test <- data.frame(
>    group = rep(c("Universe", "Respondents"), each = 16),
>    variable = rep("State", 32),
>    value = rep(c(11.3,
>                    12.7,
>                    3.3,
>                    5,
>                    0.6,
>                    8.1,
>                    6.2,
>                    5.8,
>                    6.4,
>                    14.5,
>                    8.3,
>                    0.3,
>                    3.8,
>                    2.5,
>                    8.1,
>                    3), 2),
>    label = rep(c("Baden-Wuerttemberg",
>                "Bayern",
>                "Berlin",
>                "Brandenburg",
>                "Bremen",
>                "Hamburg",
>                "Hessen",
>                "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern",
>                "Niedersachsen",
>                "Nordrhein-Westfalen",
>                "Rheinland-Pfalz",
>                "Saarland",
>                "Sachsen",
>                "Sachsen-Anhalt",
>                "Schleswig-Holstein",
>                "Thueringen"),2),
>    measure = rep("freq", 32),
>    unit = rep("%", 32),
>    stringsAsFactors = FALSE
>)
>
># This way the variables can be selected using simple
># value selection from Base R functionality.
>data <- d_test[d_test$variable == "State" ,]
>
># And plot results for every variable.
>ggplot(
>  data = data,
>  aes(
>    x = label,
>    y = value,
>    fill = group)) +
>  geom_bar(stat = "identity", position = "dodge") +
>  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1)) +
>scale_fill_discrete(name = stringi::stri_trans_totitle(names(data)[1]))
>
>+
>  scale_x_discrete(name = data$variable[1]) +
>  scale_y_discrete(name = data$unit[1])
>
>-- cut --
>
>The reporting / presentation is done in R Markdown. I would load the 
>result data set once at the beginning and running the comparisons as
>plots 
>on each variable named in the results data set under "variable".
>
>If I follow this approach for my customer relationship survey, do think
>I 
>would face drawbacks or run into serious trouble?
>
>I am interested in your opinion and open for other approaches and 
>suggestions.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Georg
>
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