The goal of tidytranscript is to make it easy to scrape data from BYU-Idaho student transcripts.
You can install the package available on GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("averyrobbins1/tidytranscript")This is a basic example which shows you how to read in a transcript and get a student’s major:
library(tidytranscript)
dat <- read_transcript('data/my_transcript.pdf')
scrape_major(dat)The main scraping functions are the following:
scrape_major- returns a student’s majorscrape_birthday- returns a student’s birthdayscrape_earned_credits- returns the total amount of credits earned by the student, including both transfer credits and credits acquired while at BYU - Idahoscrape_grades- returns only those grades earned at BYU - Idaho (transfer grades were not important for our use case. If desired, feel free to figure that out and submit a pull request.)
To make life easier, all of the necessary functions have been compiled
into one master function tidytranscript::tidytranscript. Simply input
the path to the appropriate PDF and scrape all of the desired data in
one go. Below we are also using the function get_example_file to
ahem get the example file to use for this example. Example example
example.
library(tidytranscript)
my_file <- get_example_file()
dat <- tidytranscript(my_file)
head(dat)
#> # A tibble: 6 x 7
#> course credit grade semester birthday major earned_credits
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <date> <chr> <dbl>
#> 1 CHILD 210 3.00 A FA14 2000-01-01 Sociology 123
#> 2 FDCIV 101 3.00 B+ FA14 2000-01-01 Sociology 123
#> 3 FDREL 130 2.00 A FA14 2000-01-01 Sociology 123
#> 4 FDSCI 101 2.00 A- FA14 2000-01-01 Sociology 123
#> 5 GS 100 1.00 A FA14 2000-01-01 Sociology 123
#> 6 GS 105 2.00 A FA14 2000-01-01 Sociology 123This package is only designed to scrape data from transcripts of the following PDF format:
