Documentation for the General Social Survey Cumulative Data (1972-2024,
release 1) packaged for easy use in R. This package is a companion to
the gssr package. I recommend you
install both of them.
The relatively large number of variables documented in {gssrdoc} means
it is not suitable for hosting on CRAN,
the core R package repository. The same is true of the {gssr} package.
My R Universe provides binary
packages for {gssrdoc} and {gssr}. To install both packages, copy
and paste the following code to the R console:
# Install 'gssrdoc' from 'ropensci' universe
install.packages('gssrdoc', repos =
c('https://kjhealy.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))
# Also recommended: install 'gssr' as well
install.packages('gssr', repos =
c('https://kjhealy.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))Because the packages have dependencies that are on CRAN, we add CRAN as
well as the R Universe to the repos argument.
The binary packages will install noticeably quicker than building the
package from source. Plus, you can use install.packages() directly.
You can also install gssrdoc from GitHub with:
remotes::install_github("kjhealy/gssrdoc"){gssrdoc} provides documentation for all GSS variables in the
cumulative data file via R’s help system. You can browse variables by
name in the package’s help file or type ? followed by the name of the
variable at the console to get a standard R help page containing
information on the variable, the values it takes and (in most cases) a
crosstabulation of the variable’s values for each year of the GSS. This
facility is particularly convenient in an IDE such as RStudio or
Microsoft Visual Studio.
Information about the variables is also contained in the gss_dict
object:
library(tibble)
library(gssrdoc)
gss_dictThe GSS Documentation Page contains links to extensive technical documentation for the survey, including Release Notes for the 1972-2024 Cumulative File and What’s New in 2024.
The package is documented at http://kjhealy.github.io/gssrdoc/. The
GSS homepage is at http://gss.norc.org/. While {gssrdoc} package
incorporates the publicly-available GSS cumulative data file, this
package is not associated with or endorsed by the National Opinion
Research Center or the General Social Survey.