[R] weighting (survey) data

[David Winsemius]

On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:13 PM, vivi ane wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is there a function in R equivalent to the "weight by"-command in  
> SPSS?
> I'm working with survey datasets and the data need to be weighted by a
> survey/ probability/ design weight (to compensate for different
> probabilities to be included in the sample in each country). The
> weight variables are included in the datasets.
>
> I did find functions in the Hmisc and survey packages that might fit
> some of my needs but I need to do a bunch of procedures for all of
> which the data must be weighted, as far as I can see. (I'm quite new
> to R and the prospect of having to write my own functions for all of
> them is really scaring me ;))

RSiteSearch("survey")

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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT