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reading zTee subject files in R

I want to import zTree subjects data files (quetionaire) to R and I am using zTreeSbj function written by Oliver Kirchkamp:

files <- list.files(pattern = "*.sbj$",recursive=TRUE)
fname <- sub(".*/","",files)
sbj <- zTreeSbj(aggregate(files,list(fname),function(x) x[1])$x)

I get the following error:

reading  1 ...
Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = getOption("zTree.encoding")) : 
invalid 'description' argument
Called from: file(filename, "r", encoding = getOption("zTree.encoding"))
Solution

  • I had the same problem, and Oliver Kirchkamp replied to me:

    In your case you do not need aggregate. Simply say:

    files <- list.files(pattern = "*.sbj$",recursive=TRUE)
sbj <- zTreeSbj(files)

    That worked for me, because I did not have multiple versions of the same .sbj file.