Data Validation and Testing

[kasmith11]

This is a follow-up to the 2025 INAIR Conference and is related to issue #131. This issue outlines the steps one can take to add additional data validation.

The steps for data validation are as follows:

• Create fork of IPEDSuploadables repository
• Refer to "Set up your data for IPEDS #### processing" with ### being your report of choice found in the articles tab of the IPEDSuploadables documentation. This will provide you with data types and data values that a given column/field should adhere to.
• Navigate to the function that produces your report of choice, produce_####_report located in IPEDSuploadables\R\produce_####_report to add validation for each field.
• Example validation can be found in IPEDSuploadables\R\produce_hr_report
• Submit pull request