tr.iatgen

Translate Qualtrics qsf file (assumes qsf is in english and generated by a compatible version of iatgen package).

The goal of tr.iatgen is to ...

Installation

You can install the development version of tr.iatgen:

devtools::install("iatgen/tr.iatgen");

Capabilities

List built-in translations

library(tr.iatgen)
available.languages()

      Code  Source              Target                    Description
1    en_en English             English             English to English
2    en_jp English            Japanese            English to Japanese
3    en_pt English           Portugese           English to Portugese
4 en_pt-BR English Portugese Brazilian English to Portugese Brazilian
5    en_tr English             Turkish             English to Turkish

Export translation file template

library(tr.iatgen)
export.template()

[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2-arm64/Resources/library/tr.iatgen/templates/en_en.csv"

Validate external translation file

library(tr.iatgen)
validate.language(file="en_cs.csv")

[1] "cs"

Translate qsf file

library(tr.iatgen)
translate.qsf(file="iat-flowins.qsf", lang="pt", dst_file="iat-flowins_pt.qsf")

[1] "iat-flowins_pt.qsf"

Run a built-in shiny app to facilitate qsf file translation

library(tr.iatgen)
tr.iatgen::runApp()

Translation identifier format

{source language}_{destination language}

Where source and destination languages are defined in BCP47¹ and IANA².

Examples:

en_pt-BR -- English translation to Portuguese
en_ja    -- English translation to Japanese

Footnotes

1. Tags for Identifying Languages, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt ↩

2. Language Subtag Registry, https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry ↩