I'm working on an R package to work with LimeSurvey (I plan to release to CRAN and will probably adopt some `limer` functions, see Invalid consumer key/secret in configuration <- this is an URL to Twitter, no idea why this produces an error?).

(The package is called `limonaid` and the PkgDown website is at r-packages.gitlab.io/limonaid/ )


The package currently facilitates programmatic creation of surveys and exporting them to .TSV files, which was a file format that was relatively easy to 'backwards engineer' with the help of the dedicated documentation page.

Ideally, however, the package can read/write .LSS files, too.


I couldn't find documentation about this, and discussed this using Twitter DM with Dorin Chirițoiu, and he asked me to create this post to discuss this further.

So, well - here we are

Is that documentation available somewhere but perhaps not online?

If not, what's the easiest way to produce it?

Or are there reasons why we don't actually _want_ that?

Thank you all in advance, kind regards,

Gjalt-Jorn

Hi Gjalt-Jorn,

How can we help you?

Thanks!

The LimeSurvey API is more stable than the lss XML, I think.

Yeah, I'm trying to adopt the limer functions, too. But I haven't managed to download data yet, frustratingly enough.

Anyway, not all users have access to their LimeSurvey's API. And there are many reasons why you'd want a file anyway (e.g. Open Science).

So ideally I offer all the functionality

I can also just work with the .TSV of course, if the current position is that the LSS format is best abandoned (or best left undocumented). I'm flexible

The LSS from 3 are more easy to understands than lss from 4. They surely not abandoned … never … and currently …

But it was not documented, neither 3 or 4..But it's more a DB export as XML in fact …