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Installation
Because eurobarometer is in an early development phase, you cannot install it from CRAN with the install.packages("eurobarometer") command yet. You can install the development version of eurobarometer from GitHub with devtools.
Question Bank
The eurobarometer package supports building question banks, and it is installed with a basic question bank for the most important variables.
Codebooks
The codebook used in retroharmonized is aimed at facilitating the quick creation of crosswalk tables that help the harmonization on the basis of the codebooks.
Harmonization
The retroharmoinze package uses crosswalk tables (schemas) for harmonizing many variable names, labels, value labels and numeric codes.
Quality Control
The human peer-review of output from many surveys is very difficult due to the high dimensionality of the harmonized survey datasets. We would like to support review with several forms of unit testing and automation.
Under the Hood
The eurobarometer package is a novel integration of retroharmonize, DDIwR, declared, and dataset.