Column layout specification for reading Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment (GEPA) fixed-width format data files.
A processed R version of the 'File Layout' for the 2004-2007 GEPA. Original file is in .xls format on NJDOE website
Format
A data frame with 486 rows and 10 columns:
- field_start_position
Starting position of field in fixed-width file
- field_end_position
Ending position of field in fixed-width file
- field_length
Length of field in characters
- data_type
Data type of field (e.g., "Text", "Numeric")
- description
Description of field
- comments
Additional comments about field
- valid_values
Valid values or ranges for field
- spanner1
First-level column grouping label
- spanner2
Second-level column grouping label
- final_name
Final column name to use in parsed data
- field_start_position
field_start_position
- field_end_position
field_end_position
- field_length
field_length
- data_type
data_type
- description
description
- comments
comments
- valid_values
valid_values
- spanner1
spanner1
- spanner2
spanner2
- final_name
final_name
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