Scope | The three controls | Ordered factors take precedence | sort_dep_by: ordering the dependent variables | Structural keys | Response-pattern keys | Spread | Direct column keys | Custom category keys | sort_indep_by: ordering the independent categories | When the dependent variable is numeric | Direction | When a key is not recognized | Setting a sort order once for the whole report

What Saros is | Semi-automatic, not automatic | Purpose and goals | A better experience for readers | Stronger quality assurance | Transparency and reproducibility | Efficiency and capacity | Success criteria | Macro, mesos and micro | "Mesos" is the term the code uses | How a Saros report is produced | The steps of a survey cycle | What Saros is built from | The Saros packages | The package split | Packages and templates built for NIFU | Third-party technologies | Possible additions | The traditional report format | A methods chapter about a survey | A results chapter about a survey | Objections and known limitations

What adoption involves | What Saros can generate | The default templates | Proportions versus frequencies | .template_name is not a fixed vocabulary | Mapping from the old element names | Ethical reflections on incentivizing with mesos reports

Objections | Our report also needs chapters that are not about surveys | Is it not risky for everyone to depend on RStudio? | What about Tableau? | Are we removing the interesting work? Are we automating ourselves out of a job? | Are we locking ourselves into one way of presenting the data? | Known limitations

Kompetansebarometeret (KB) | Arbeidsgiverundersøkelsen (AGU) | Kandidatundersøkelsen for høyere utdanning (KU) | Kandidatundersøkelsen for høyere yrkesfaglig utdanning (KYU) | Deltakerundersøkelsen (DU) | Critical Thinking in Sustainability Education (CriThiSE) | The Choice Architecture of Admission to Education (ArcED) | Health and Life Skills (HeaLS) | Spørringene til Skole-Norge (SSN) | Reading these as examples

What variables do Saros need? | Variable name | Data types | Categorical variables | Text variables (character, string, open text fields) | Mesos variable | Number variables | Variable labels | Storage of data | Complex survey designs | Project-specific data preparations

Configuring your computer | Work with Quarto documents (*.qmd) | Glossary

Chapter overview

Create a research project folder from scratch | Whatever you chose... | Path A: Copy entire folder structure | Path B: Add only Saros to an existing project folder | Path C: Generate a complete folder structure from a folder structure file | Tailor project settings | Most important changes

Under development | Standard variable names in longitudinal projects | General advice

Connection to the Astronomical concept of Saros

Noobs only | Installing R, Rstudio, Quarto, Rtools (Windows) | Configuring R | Known problems during installation or first time use

See the respective template R script files, YAML-files and QMD-files.