thestats, a user-friendly R data package that is intended to make Turkish higher education statistics more accessible. The package provides researchers access to data scraped from the portal called YOKATLAS and by using it, researchers no longer have to spend additional time digging into the Turkish higher education statistics. It does not only help researchers to query the data but also provides ready-to-use aggregation possibilities. With this, the researchers can easily calculate some statistics on the level of cities and regions.
To install the package from the github repo, devtools is
required and the package can be installed by using following code:
devtools::install_github("analyticsresearchlab/thestats")thestats provides three easy-to-use functions:
list_uni(), list_dept(), and
list_score(). In a nutshell, list_uni()
function helps to query universities in cities or regions specified by
the user. Moreover, the function allows calculating aggregations such as
the number of universities per year in cities or regions specified by
the user. The function has four arguments: region_names,
city_names, aggregation and lang.
- region_names argument is to pass names of the regions
shown in Table
2. - city_names is for specifying city names,
aggregation is to provide the universities in specific regions or
cities. - lang argument is to select English or Turkish as
a language of returned results by the function. Let’s assume that the
user would like to query universities in Izmir, which is a city in the
west part of Turkey:
list_uni(region_names = "all", city_names = "Izmir")Following example can be used to get the number of universities per type (state or private) in Izmir and Mugla.
list_uni(region_names = "all",
city_names = c("Izmir", "Mugla"),
aggregation = "count_by_city")list_dept() function helps to query universities, departments in
cities or regions. Moreover, it allows calculating aggregations such as
the number of universities or the number of universities having specific
departments per year in cities or regions specified. The function also
has same arguments like list_uni(). It allows users to
query departments or universities per cities or regions. As shown in the
following example, there is a possibility to get universities that have
Statistics departments in Izmir and Mugla.
list_dept(region_names = "all",
city_names = c("Izmir", "Mugla"),
department_names = "Statistics")list_score() function is for querying detailed
statistics about universities at the level of departments, cities,
regions. The function has an additional argument is var_ids
allows users to specify the type of statistics they would like to see as
described in Table
3. As shown in the following example, users can pass statistics they
want to see to var_ids argument. In this example,
X190 refers the number of assistant professors and
X196 refers the number of incoming exchange students.
Following the usage of the function, it will return these statistics for
the universities which are located in Izmir and have the Statistics
department.
list_score(region_names = "all",
city_names = "Izmir",
university_names = "all",
department_names = "Statistics",
var_ids = c("X190", "X196"))If you use thestats, please cite it:
@misc{thestats,
author = {Aydin, O. and Cavus, M.},
title = {thestats: An R package for exploring Turkish higher education statistics},
year = {2021},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/analyticsresearchlab/thestats}}
}For any questions and feedback, please dont hesitate to contact us via following e-mail adresses: - olgun.aydin@pg.edu.pl - mustafacavus@eskisehir.edu.tr