slider question type

[jtkulas]

Description

I haven't played with all question types yet, but the syntax for item response (displayed and recorded) appears reversed for slider question types, at least relative to the mc family of question types.

With mc questions, the syntax with surveydown 0.4.0 is:

option = c(
"display" = "data base value"
)

Slider questions appear to be:

option = c(
"data base value" = "display"
)

Feature request is a transposition of display/dbvalue for the slider type such that it's consistent with mc questions

[jhelvy]

I haven't tested this myself yet, but I think you are correct. The example documentation on this shows the labels in the "normal" way that is consistent with the other question types, but the screenshot of the slider is actually displaying the values, not the labels. So I do think we got this reversed somehow. @pingfan-hu can you update this at some point on the branch we're working on? That will get it fixed in the next version.

[pingfan-hu]

Sure I'll take a look. I might have misplaced the label and value in the definition.

[pingfan-hu]

Hi @jtkulas ! I've made the slider working properly in our developing branch, so you'll need to wait until we merge the branch. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Below is how my solution looks:
Firstly, the definition of Slider type should look like this:

sd_question(
  type  = 'slider',
  id    = 'climate_care',
  label = "To what extent do you believe human-caused climate change is real?",
  option = c(
    "Don't Believe",
    "Somewhat Believe",
    "Neutral",
    "Believe",
    "Strongly Believe"
  )
)

As you can see I don't use pairing of names and values, but there is only a single value for each option (which should be considered as "name"). Then in the data sheet, they will be converted to snake case. For example, you'll see "Don't Believe" in the survey slider, but see "dont_believe" in your data sheet.

The reason is that the shinyWidgets::sliderTextInput() function only accepts single values in their choices (aka our options) argument. This is also why you had the glitch in the slider question type.

I'll notify you once we have the new version merged so that you can try it out.

[jtkulas]

No need to notify me, it's a very minor issue I just wanted to bring to your attention - thanks for all your great work on this package!!! It's very exciting to have some new survey options, keep up the great work, all of you! 💪