Assignment 8

For this assignment, you will use a combination of the files we’ve used so far in class. Be sure to set your data directories at the top of the file (assuming that we’re working in the scripts subdirectory). Because some of the questions involve reading in the data, you can break our one organizing rule that says to read in data at the top — instead just read in the data as needed for each question

You do not need to save the final output as a data file: just having the final result print to the console is fine. For each question, I would like you to try to pipe all the commands together. Throughout, you should account for missing values to the best of your ability by dropping them.

Questions

1. Using a loop, do the following:
   1. Read in each of the individual school test files for Bend Gate and Niagara only. (HINT The vertical pipe operator, |, means OR in regular expression patterns.)
   2. Within each iteration of the loop, add a column to the data frame that is called relative_path and contains the string relative path to the data file you just read in (e.g., if the file is located at ../data/sch_test/by_school/bend_gate_1980.csv, then relative_path == "../data/schools/by_test/bend_gate_1980.csv" in that row).
   3. Bind all the data sets together.
2. BONUS: do the same as before, but use purrr map() function.
3. Read in hsls_small.csv and do the following:
   1. Using the user-written function fix_missing(), convert missing values in x1ses to NA.
   2. Do the following steps:
      1. Subset the full data frame to the first 50 rows and pull out the test scores into a vector using the following code:

         test_scr <- df %>% 
            filter(row_number() <= 50) %>% 
            pull(x1txmtscor)
         

      2. Using a for() loop, print out the index of the missing values (when test_scr equals -8).
      3. Repeat the same code, but add an else() companion to the initial if() statement that prints the value if non-missing.
      4. Add an else if() between the initial if() and final else() in your loop that prints "Flag: low score" if the score is less than 40. Also, change your first if() statement to print "Flag: missing value" instead of the index if the value is missing.

   3. Write your own function to compare two values and return the higher of the two. It should be called return_higher(), take two arguments, and return the higher of two values.

      Once you’ve created it, use it in a dplyr chain to create a new column in the data frame called high_expct that is the represents the higher of x1stuedexpct and x1paredexpct. Don’t forget to account for missing values!

      HINT If stuck on what the inside of your function should look like, go back to the lesson in which we did this already — can you repurpose that code in some way?

Submission details

• Save your script (<lastname>_assignment_8.R) in your scripts directory.
• Push changes to your repo (the new script and new folder) to GitHub prior to the next class session.