Q and Displayr work very well together. QPacks made in Displayr or Q can be used in each program interchangeably and can provide workflow options between teams.
Step 1: Upload a QPack to Displayr
A QPack is a compressed file that contains both your project work and the associated data file.
- Open your project in Q.
- Select File > Save as…, change the File type option to Q Pack Files, choose a file name, and press Save.
- In Displayr, go to the Documents screen, press New > Upload > QPack, select your file (ending in .QPack), and press OK.
Step 2: Create your pages and folders in Displayr
Although Q and Displayr are 100% compatible, they are different in terms of how they present things and also how a few things work. See an overview of the differences.
A key difference you will notice is that Displayr is organized around folders, outputs (table, visualization, R Output, etc.), and pages in the Report tree, whereas Q is organized around tables/outputs. For example, the screenshot below shows this data set in Q, where I have three folders containing crosstabs.
And here is the project in Displayr, where the first folder is a blank page. My folder Demographics has become a folder for each of the crosstabs I had in Q.
If you want to convert an output in the Report tree to an output on a page, right-click the output, select Convert Outputs to Page(s), and select the page layout.
Step 3: (Optional) Hiding all your Q work in the Displayr document
If you are using Q for your analysis, there is a good chance that you may want to continue to use Q later, as well as using Displayr. If this is the case, the trick is to avoid inadvertently deleting your Q work when you create your dashboard in Displayr. You can do this as follows in Displayr:
- In the Report tree, click + > Folder > Title Only.
- Click into Click to add title, and give the folder a name, such as "My Q Stuff".
- Select all of your existing Q work (from the Report tree), and drag it onto this new folder.
- Hide the folder you have created by right-clicking the folder and selecting Hide.
Step 4: Create your dashboard
Now, with the data in Displayr, it is time to build a dashboard. How to Create a Simple Dashboard in Displayr continues where this post leaves off, building a dashboard for this data file in Displayr.
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