Displayr

I was in a meeting earlier today discussing the ease of use for merging files in Q vs. Displayr. The dialog box in Q is simple and easy to navigate since you’re just dragging and dropping questions that should be aligned. Though the dialog box in Displayr has similarities to Q, the options and how information is entered in the object inspector have a clunkier feel. Are there any plans to change the merge design in Dispalyr?

Have an Excel-style paste sheet so you can omit variables in bulk. Currently very slow if you want to omit lots of variables because you have to define each one individually.

When merging data sets, it would be helpful to have a way to additionally merge similar categories where the labels are very slightly different.

It’s easy for users to reference a constructed variable that’s not actually in the raw data set when trying to merge data sets in Displayr. This should be pointed out in an error message to make it clearer what the issue is, as users often don’t realize only raw variables can be referenced and/or don’t remember what variables are raw vs constructed.