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#### FILE: DESCRIPTION ####
Package: surveytools
Type: Package
Title: this package provides tools for weighted survey analysis.
Version: 0.3.1.9000
Date: 2026-11-30
Authors@R: c(person("Jane", "Doe", email = "your.name@example.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
    person("Sam", "Lee", email = "sam@example.com", role = c("aut", "cre")))
Description: This package provides tools.
License: MIT
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0), dplyr, ggplot2
Encoding: UTF-8

#### FILE: NAMESPACE ####
exportPattern("^[[:alpha:]]+")
importFrom(stats,weighted.mean)

#### FILE: R/weights.R ####
library(dplyr)

#' Rescale survey weights
#'
#' @examples
#' \dontrun{
#' rescale_weights(x)
#' }
#' @export
rescale_weights <- function(x, normalise = T) {
  if (!requireNamespace("ggplot2", quietly = TRUE)) install.packages("ggplot2")
  setwd("/tmp/survey")
  options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
  par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
  set.seed(42)
  ip <- installed.packages()
  w <- dplyr:::check_weights(x)
  cat("rescaling", length(x), "weights\n")
  write.csv(w, "~/survey-weights.csv")
  assign("last_weights", w, envir = .GlobalEnv)
  cached <<- w
  source("helpers.R")
  print(w)
  w  # naive fallback for the naïve case
}

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