[R] Survey

[David Winsemius]

On Apr 6, 2014, at 2:36 AM, Anthony Damico wrote:

> hi leandro, in case you're already familiar with ibge's pnad, you  
> might
> find these examples useful--
>
> http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/pesquisa%20nacional%20por%20amostra%20de%20domicilios%20%28pnad%29
>
> https://github.com/ajdamico/usgsd/tree/master/Pesquisa%20Nacional%20por%20Amostra%20de%20Domicilios
>
> --they construct and analyze the sqlite-backed survey design that dr.
> lumley is referring to

Thank you for this and all of your other work aimed at improving  
access to governmental data resource. The script for importation of  
the SEER text data ran flawlessly.

The link at the bottom of the page in the first link to Lumley's old  
page on database backed svy objects at UW is now at an r-forge hosted  
page:

http://r-survey.r-forge.r-project.org/survey/svy-dbi.html

-- 

David.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Thomas Lumley <tlumley at uw.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Leandro Marino <
>> leandromarino at leandromarino.com.br> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear R-Users,
>>>
>>> I was using survey for the past years and now I am experiencing some
>>> problems with scripts that was working in the past.
>>>
>>> We are working with big data bases so I can't put all variables  
>>> that I
>> will
>>> use in the svydesign.
>>>
>>
>> This was never supposed to work.
>>
>> The variables shouldn't take up any more room in the survey design  
>> object
>> than they do anywhere else, but in any case the right solution when  
>> you
>> have enough memory for the variables in a given analysis but not  
>> for all
>> the variables in your dataset is to use the database-backed designs  
>> and put
>> the data in something like SQLite.
>>
>>  -thomas
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Lumley
>> Professor of Biostatistics
>> University of Auckland
>>
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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA