7 0 obj The letter size is described in LogMAR units where LogMAR 0.00 is equivalent to 6/6 (20/20) in snellen scale or 85 ETDRS letter Score. The authors declare no competing interests. It is more user friendly, since it avoids decimal values and is more intuitive, since higher values indicate better vision. The formula to convert Snellen visual acuity measurements to approxETDRS letter scores is 85 + 50 x log (Snellen fraction), which may be rounded to the nearest letter. Our data set consists of 100 patients who underwent corneal collagen cross linking. It takes an (atomic) vector with visual acuity entries as the only required argument. We measured their. Vision Research 90: 2-9. 9 0 obj The "ETDRS" chart is another vision chart that is often used for ophthalmic studies as it is easy to convert the letters on this chart for statistical values to help better understand published results. It is not really intended to replace other awesome data exploration packages / functions such as skimr::skim, and it will likely remain focussed on summarizing numerical data only. It will be left in the package as such. Overall, 76.6% of eyes correctly identified more letters with the ETDRS chart. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. Plausibility checks are performed for the automatically or manually defined - https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.05-0981 [ 14 0 R] if one of CF, HM, LP, PL, NLP, or NPL: Snellen fractions (meter/ feet) need to be entered as fraction with /. You can also decide to simply clean your VA vector with cleanVA(x). You can read the full text of this article if you: Keywords notation for qualitative entries is simplified. Proper method for calculating average visual acuity. The arguments id and eye arguments overrule the name guessing for the respective columns. 3,575,655. It uses an S3 generic under the hood with methods for atomic vectors, data frames, and lists of either atomic vectors or data frames. Snellen decimal ETDRS Letters Snellen feet Snellen meter logMAR 2.00 100 20/10 6/3 -0.3 1.60 95 20/12.5 6/4 -0.2 1.25 90 20/16 6/5 -0.1 1.00 85 20/20 6/6 0 The findings suggest that caution must be taken when comparing clinical trial VA results with routine clinical outcomes. Reference values for these are customizable and can be left as CF, HM, LP and NLP (Appendix S1). entries equivalent to 0.02 logmar. "etdrs", "logmar", "snellen" or "snellendec". Fazel F, Malekahmadi M, Feizi A, Oliya B, Tavakoli M, Fazel M. BMC Ophthalmol. Unable to load your collection due to an error, Unable to load your delegates due to an error. PubMedGoogle Scholar. ETDRS charts (within about 2% of the letter size at each logMAR level). VAwrapper, they are unlikely to happen by chance as a wrong entry (and as integers), 1) hence reducing risk of transcription errors. Since 1990, M&S Technologies has served eye care professionals. Depending a lot on how the data was entered, the results could become quite surprising. Lim, C., De Silva, I. Even more so, as the given conditions should work for charts with 4 or 5 optotypes in a line, and visual acuity is not always tested on such charts. You can capitalise the first number with the caps argument. endobj The mean and range of testing times were: ETDRS 34.65 (9.38-80.18) seconds, cRLM 21.17 (5-40) seconds, Snellen 18.67 (3-35.56) seconds. Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! The value of each letter was calculated by dividing. The ETDRS chart is fully accessible on modern computerized vision testing systems, thanks to Dr. Bailey and Dr. Lovies work to create a more accurate chart! Chen FK, Agelis LE, Peh KK, Teong J, Wong EN. As for myop and of course blink, a specific column naming is required for a reliable automatic detection of patient and eye column(s) ( see Names and codes). Logmar-Snellen Conversion Table. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. convertVA returns a vector of three classes: One of snellen, snellendec, logmar, etdrs or quali. To help those who are using the standard Snellen chart in their practice and wish to convert it to LogMAR, we have produced 81 possible combinations of Snellen visual acuity and their true. Snellen Notation (logMAR to Snellen conversion for 65 letters): 20/50. The Snellen visual acuity notation was developed by Hermann Snellen in 1862, during the time of the Civil War. difficult to justify a "negative" letter score in a test which only has ## `eye` won't be able to recognize IOP and VA columns, ## But `eye` will fail to understand those variable names, #> eye surgery var mean sd n min max, #> 1 left SLT iop_preop 34.0 NA 1 34 34, #> 2 left SLT iop_postop 14.0 NA 1 14 14, #> 3 left SLT va_preop 44.0 NA 1 44 44, #> 4 left SLT va_postop 48.0 NA 1 48 48, #> 5 right SLT iop_preop 23.5 0.7 2 23 24, #> 6 right SLT iop_postop 13.5 0.7 2 13 14, #> 7 right SLT va_preop 43.5 0.7 2 43 44, #> 8 right SLT va_postop 47.5 0.7 2 47 48, #> 9 left TE iop_preop 32.0 1.0 3 31 33, #> 10 left TE iop_postop 12.0 1.0 3 11 13, #> 11 left TE va_preop 42.0 1.0 3 41 43, #> 12 left TE va_postop 46.0 1.0 3 45 47, #> 13 right TE iop_preop 21.5 0.7 2 21 22, #> 14 right TE iop_postop 11.5 0.7 2 11 12, #> 15 right TE va_preop 41.5 0.7 2 41 42, #> 16 right TE va_postop 45.5 0.7 2 45 46, ## If no second date given, the age today, ## If the second argument is specified, the age until then, https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9394(02)01825-1, https://doi.org/10.1097/iae.0b013e3181d87e04, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrs.2004.01.014. Since there are 5 letters per line, the total score for a line on the LogMAR chart represents a change of 0.1 log units. Eye They found that the ETDRS visual acuity scores were significantly betterand that the difference was more pronounced among eyes with worse visual acuity. Some error has occurred while processing your request. Thus, the authors said, the specific retinal disease state and extent of edema may play a role in the variability between the measurements. increase/decrease Snellen fractions by lines. The formula to convert Snellen visual acuity measurements to approxETDRS letter scores is 85 + 50 log (Snellen fraction), which may be rounded to . ## If the dimension is already part of the column names, this is not necessary. FALSE: You don't have permission to access this content. Visual acuity data must be standardized in a logMAR format to allow for statistical analysis [1]. Mean patient age was 62.8 years (range, 25-93 years), and there was a mean of 27.2 days between measurements. Schulze-Bonsel et al. The .gov means its official. va_mixed(), Specific types of logMAR chart include the original Bailey-Lovie chart,[3] as well as the ETDRS charts, developed for the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study. For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy. <> We examined two different methods of scoring individual letters on a Snellen chart. If you have columns with VA or IOP that contain only 0 and 1 for example (which is unlikely, but not impossible), you can just set, Getting the new names based on the indices of the columns, Creating a vector of expected new names for the summary after myopization, Do not use numeric coding for eyes in column names, Separate eye and VA and IOP codes with underscores (bcva_l_preop, VA_r, left_va, IOP_re), Dont use underscores when you dont need to: Consider each section divided by an underscore as a relevant characteristic of your variable. Allows conversion of CF, HM, LP and NLP into LogMAR. Distances between lines were not consistent. endobj entries equivalent to 0.02 logmar. An official website of the United States government. Plausibility checks are performed for the automatically or manually defined TRUE: plus/minus Therefore, transforming +/- notation to actual results is in itself problematic and the below suggestion to convert it will remain an approximation to the most likely true result. 16 0 obj VAwrapper, FALSE: It can be rear or front illuminated. Either of character (for Snellen, snellendec, and qualitative), All Snellen and ETDRS VA measurements were converted to logMAR units for direct comparison, and the variability between measurements was calculated. ## automatic detection of VA notation and converting to logMAR by default, #> [1] "20/320" "20/80" "20/32" "20/70", ## And the decimal snellen notation, so much loved in Germany, ## Remove weird entries and implausible entries depending on the VA choice, #> From snellen. Vector with visual acuity entries. The ESV-3000 is designed specifically for clinical trials where large-format ETDRS testing (up to 20/200) is performed at 4 meters. The authors have no commercial or proprietary interest in any product or corporation mentioned in this article. considered an exact science and any attempt to use formulas will result eyes_to_string() parses the output of eyes into text under the hood. The cols argument takes a tidyselection. Any element which is implausible/ not recognized will be converted to NA. ETDRS letter, in order to keep it as a measurement (not: NA). Ferris proposed a method termed letter scoring to incorporate gained or missed letters [2]. . Please enable scripts and reload this page. The conversion of Snellen data to logMAR can also be misleading as the abstract and results sections of papers that use this process sometimes give the impression that data have been collected using logMAR charts suggesting the data are more reliable that they actually are. Trabelsi O, Bouladi M, Ouertani A, Trabelsi A. Clin Ophthalmol. Google Scholar. It is very Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. 11 Confusion 2. [1] Each line of the LogMAR chart comprises the same number of test letters (effectively standardizing the test across letter size); the letter size change from one line to the next is a constant ratio, as is the spacing between lines (making the chart easy to use at nonstandard viewing distances). A linear relationship exists between true ETDRS letter scores, approxETDRS letter scores, and logMAR units. Any fractions allowed. endobj To Snellen: Conversion of Snellen visual acuity to LogMAR visual acuity. Any element which is implausible/ not recognized will be converted to NA. endobj <> #> Unclear which is the eye column. You can get creative with your snellens. 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However, just as all original technology does, there came a point when the Snellen chart needed reform. Eye 34, 21482149 (2020). CAS Switching to brolucizumab: injection intervals and visual, anatomical and safety outcomes at 12 and 18months in real-world eyes with neovascular age-related macular degeneration. means, it can also be a character vector), Qualitative must be either of PL, LP, NLP, NPL, HM, CF (any case allowed). See also Examples. Any fractions allowed. Would you like email updates of new search results? According to The New York Times, he asked Dr. Snellen to make the chart. A conversion to snellen gives a good gauge of how the visual For access, try logging in If you are subscribed to this group and have noticed abuse, report abusive group. US: 877-225-6101 -- International: 00 1 847 763 0500, US Toll-Free: 877-225-6101 -- International: 00 1 847 763 0500, NEW, from M&S Technologies, the CTS 5.5 Ultra-High Resolution Display for use in ophthalmic researc, M&S Technologies Launches the Smart System Virtual Reality Headset Including Critical Eye Tracking, Dynamic Voice Recognition capability available for M&S Technologies Smart System 2 | 2020. in very weird Snellen values that have no correspondence to common charts. Schulze-Bonsel, Kilian, Nicolas Feltgen, Hermann Burau, Lutz Hansen, and Michael Bach. which_va(). endobj which_va(). PURPOSE: To develop a computerized method of visual acuity testing for clinical research as an alternative to the standard Early Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) testing protocol,. Snellen are unfortunately often entered with +/-, which is a violation of psychophysical methods designed to assign one (!) Because the standard testing . ## will automatically detect VA class and convert to logMAR by default, ## snellen, mixed with categories. volume36,page 1708 (2022)Cite this article, This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution, Receive 18 print issues and online access, Get just this article for as long as you need it, Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout. a specific range (0-100). eye works smoother with tidy data, and with good names (any package does, really!). similar and uniform legibility of each line and offer an ease of conversion of VA to a logarithmic scale. #> maintained, but will be kept in the package. Kucukevcilioglu M, Yeilta YS, Durukan AH, Unlu N, Onen M, Alp MN, Kalayci D, Acar MA, Sekeroglu MA, Citirik M, Altintas AGK, Hazirolan D, Ozdal PC, Toklu Y, Bicer T, Ugurlu N, Budakoglu O, Yazar Z, Zeki NIU, Serdar K, Doguizi S, Erol YO, Atilgan CU, Yorgun MA, Soba DO, Berker N, Baskan C. Medicina (Kaunas). The interconversion between Snellen visual acuity measurements, logMAR units, and approxETDRS letter scores was prepared in a tabular form for easy reference. Decimal Snellen fractions MAR LogMAR 6m 5m 4m 3m 20ft 10ft 0.010 6/600 5/500 4/400 3/300 20/2000 10/1000 100 2.0 0.012 6/480 5/400 4/320 3/240 20/1600 10/800 80 1.92 Qualitative visual acuity lower than counting fingers is assigned 0 Kaiser [4] described how he prepared for statistical analysis by converting the Snellen fraction to logMAR. They will be recoded to r and l, Myopization: The actual work is done with, All columns with an eye string at first position will be selected pivoted to two long colums (, Identification of the index of the VA and IOP columns, Character columns if they are not coding for Snellen fractions or qualitative visual acuity, Those with unique values in the range of the vector defined by the argument fct_level. This is a common misconception). You can also more globally change recognized codes with set_eye_strings(). Conversion of Snellen visual acuity fractions to approxETDRS letter scores for the purpose of performing statistical manipulations provides more readily interpretable outcomes compared with the current strategy of converting Snellen visual acuity fractions to logMAR units. Data is temporarily unavailable. 2017 Jun 1;135(6):651-653. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2017.0932. and it has internal reasons that make conversion easier. endstream Although kind of nice, blink is more a nerdy extra and is not likely to be used much. This argument can be overriden with noplus = TRUE, ignoring the plus minus entries entirely and simply returning the nearest Snellen values. There is basically a nearly infinite amount of possible combinations of how to enter data, and it is likely that myop will not be able to deal with all of them. Google Scholar, Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Infirmary Square, Leicester, LE1 5WW, UK, Stephenie Tiew,Christina Lim&Tharsica Sivagnanasithiyar, You can also search for this author in logMAR to ETDRS: logMAR rounded to the first digit and converted with the chart. By default, numbers smaller than or equal to 12 will be real English, all other numbers will be numbers. Those are removed because they are likely categorical codes. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9394(02)01825-1, Hand movements and counting fingers are converted following You can find with eye:::va_chart. 2023 Feb 8;17:515-525. doi: 10.2147/OPTH.S400156. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-021-01764-y, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-021-01764-y. If there still are variables spread over two columns for right and left eyes, then this is an example of messy data. Snellen fractions need to be entered with "/". 18 0 obj Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative, International Journal of Retina and Vitreous (2022), Eye (Eye) Effect of letter separation on computerised visual acuity measurements: comparison with the gold standard Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) chart. For example, eight columns that store data of four variables for right and left eyes will be pivoted to 5 columns (one eye column and four further variable columns)). Other VA converter: 19 0 obj Most retrospective reviews convert Snellen visual acuity measurements obtained during routine clinic visits to logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR) units so that statistical manipulations can be performed. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrs.2004.01.014. Michael Bach. Snellen to logMAR: logMAR = -1 * log10(snellen_frac) Snellen to ETDRS: ETDRS = 85 + 50 * log10(snellen_frac) Gregori et al.. ETDRS to logMAR: logMAR = -0.02 * etdrs + 1.7 Beck et al. acuity for the patients are. Efficacy of small-incision lenticule extraction surgery in high astigmatism: A meta-analysis. Suprachoroidal injection of triamcinolone acetonide plus intravitreal bevacizumab in diabetic macular edema: a randomized pilot trial. volume34,pages 21482149 (2020)Cite this article. The results of this study suggest that for both clinical and research purposes, both Snellen and ETDRS can be used interchangeably. A linear relationship exists between true ETDRS letter scores, approxETDRS letter scores, and logMAR units. eyes also include a convenience function to turn the count into a text. This is based on the assumption of 5 optotypes in a row. If smallstep = TRUE, each snellen optotype will be considered any case allowed. Either of character (for Snellen, snellendec, and qualitative), ePd*D _@!(N|u!0!gL0F6?%='=N]baTcdCA?$wdEBjFOV{cP0 |1?28SjVH*5)y91M3z-wfr?X}wIt.,U3[,{x|.27w"FX`K K W;I D{c2drIDn?jokscrMjc-"Xv5Z3&p{-w/UnS200ue0 `8=e&"1w+8CE~2y'f%k>-$Ge;TGO^5EJ}bEBn>b%;-+k7, 6#:(ku(\EJcbCpsQu+1zhYmTGXLv"iQ=(6-Vc+)&RZ(Vd|FuiQM+EJ}bEj![XVU+1uY[(Vu+1+!E7\E=T@P[iTn'4]eQP'\]O[+#WFOIu >JI5)9Ejz1_h*:N7bg0ke rxn va() will detect the class automatically based on specific rules detailed below. Bookshelf doi: 10.1016/s0002-9394 (02)01825-1 Hand movements and counting fingers are converted following Schulze-Bonsel et al. Holladay J. To which Snellen notation to convert: "m", "dec" or "ft", how +/- entries are evaluated. However, back-conversion should not be Tiew S, Lim C, Sivagnanasithiyar T. Using an excel spreadsheet to convert Snellen visual acuity to LogMAR visual acuity. In 1982, the chart was renamed the ETDRS chart as it was recommended to be used in the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (note: the terms ETDRS chart and logMAR chart are not interchangeable logMAR is not a type of chart, but rather a term to describe visual acuity notation. to maintaining your privacy and will not share your personal information without Donders diagnosed vision problems by asking people to look at a chart on a wall and tell him what they could see. #> id eye surgery iop_preop iop_postop va_preop va_postop, #> , #> 1 a right TE 21 11 41 45, #> 2 a left TE 31 11 41 45, #> 3 b right TE 22 12 42 46, #> 4 b left TE 32 12 42 46, #> 5 c right SLT 23 13 43 47, #> 6 c left TE 33 13 43 47, #> 7 d right SLT 24 14 44 48, #> 8 d left SLT 34 14 44 48, #> id surgery r_iop_preop r_iop_postop r_va_preop r_va_postop l_iop_preop, #> , #> 1 a TE 21 11 41 45 31, #> 2 b TE 22 12 42 46 32, #> 3 c SLT 23 13 43 47 , #> 4 c TE 33, #> 5 d SLT 24 14 44 48 34. the VA chart are used. In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles For entries with mixed notation, use va_mixed instead. 11 0 obj ?myop for help, #> From etdrs. 2023 M&S Technologies Each letter has a score value of 0.02 log units. A solution would be to remove or simply rename the eye column and then let myop do the work. 1, 35 The first 4 columns contain VA equivalents as they are currently understood, and the fifth column contains the expected 95% ETDRS CI for each Snellen . This may be a necessary data formal for specific questions. Front Med (Lausanne). In the group of patients, the eyes with the lower visual acuity, and the right eyes of the healthy subjects, were . See also "VA classes", logMAR to ETDRS: logMAR rounded to the first digit and converted with The user can specify the original VA notation, but va will check that and ignore the argument if implausible. government site. 2010 Mar;30(2):200-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2009.00700.x. Qualitative visual acuity entries acuity for the patients are. 13 0 obj Other VA converter: It is very and JavaScript. If there are only eye columns in your data (should actually not happen), myop will create identifiers by row position. Reshaping many such columns can be a daunting task, and myop() makes this easier. in Snellen. endobj Methods: Snellen visual acuity measurements were converted to approximate ETDRS (approxETDRS) letter scores for statistical manipulations and then converted back to Snellen equivalent fractions. Snellen to ETDRS: ETDRS = 85 + 50 * log10 (snellen_frac) doi: 10.1097/iae.0b013e3181d87e04 ETDRS to logMAR: logMAR = -0.02 * etdrs + 1.7 Beck et al. Holladay et al.doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2004.01.014, Beck et al. The World Health Organization established criteria for low vision using the LogMAR scale. Visual acuity testing. For counting eyes, eyes need to be coded in commonly used ways. Snellen to ETDRS: ETDRS = 85 + 50 * log10 (snellen_frac) doi: 10.1097/iae.0b013e3181d87e04 ETDRS to logMAR: logMAR = -0.02 * etdrs + 1.7 Beck et al. Article Better just "VA", #> [1] "Id" "Eye" "FollowupDays" "BaselineAge", #> [5] "Gender" "VA_ETDRS_Letters" "InjectionNumber". Am J Ophthalmol. Internet Explorer). Google Scholar. Please always check the result for plausibility. endobj Thank you for visiting nature.com. Excel spreadsheet picture depicting an example of Snellen VA 6/122 and 6/12+2 with their respective logMAR equivalents. Please always keep a critical mind when working with data - if you do get results that seem implausible, there may be a chance that the data is in an unfortunate shape for which eye may not be suitable. Ignored if the value should not be plausible. M]D_*zcP?VpON`7?44N]p+8arMa*\ Ferris FL, Kassoff A, Bresnick GH, Bailey I. they are unlikely to happen by chance as a wrong entry (and as integers), Also dealing with those "plus/minus" entries, ## Any fraction is possible, and empty values, ## but this not any fraction when converting from one class to the other, Accepted VA formats / Plausibility checks. Table: Different notations of visual acuity values as decimal values, Snellen fractions, MAR and LogMAR. Must be atomic. Results: A linear relationship exists between true ETDRS letter scores, approxETDRS letter scores, and logMAR units. Pesky visual acuity notations are now a matter of the past. Examples. back to Snellen, it is a very natural thing to eye specialists to think <> Bailey and Lovie created their own modified version of the Snellen chart to reduce some of its inaccuracies. Or, arguably more appropriate in R, character coding for a categorical variable: you can change those codes with set_eye_strings(). Publishers note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. . endobj Charts with the Snellen E and the Landolt C (Precision Vision) which mimic the ETDRS charts were used to assess visual acuity. To Snellen: A more intuitive approach is presented here which uses the conversion of Snellen visual acuity fractions to Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) letter scores for statistical manipulations. ## if you only want to rename one or a few columns: #> [1] "patID" "oculus" "eyepressure" "VA", ## information on the tested dimension is included ("iop"), ## VA and eye strings are separated by underscores, #> [1] "id" "surgery_right" "surgery_left" "iop_r_preop", #> [5] "iop_r_postop" "iop_l_preop" "iop_l_postop" "va_r_preop", #> [9] "va_r_postop" "va_l_preop" "va_l_postop", ## Id and Eye are common names, there are no spaces, ## VA is separated from the rest with an underscore, ## There is an unnecessary underscore (etdrs are always letters). Ignored if the value should not be plausible. The site is secure. eCollection 2023. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. and JavaScript. right eyes: c(r, re, od, right) and, left eyes: c(l, le, os, left) and, both eyes: c(b, both, ou), Next, it will look for columns that are plainly called ID, Last, it will search for all names that contain either pat or id, columns will full string eye or eyes will be given precedence, right eyes: c(r, re, od, right), left eyes: c(l, le, os, left), Re-arranging and recoding substrings in a way that strings for eyes always appear at first position. ## But which dimension of "r"/"l" are we exactly looking at? 2006. Visual Acuities Hand Motion and Counting Fingers Can Be Quantified with the Freiburg Visual Acuity Test. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 47 (3): 123640. in Snellen. endobj %PDF-1.5 The formula to convert Snellen visual acuity measurements to approxETDRS letter scores is 85 + 50 log (Snellen fraction), which may be rounded to the nearest letter. You have full access to this article via your institution. This chart is included in the package as va_chart. Contact Us and let us know. Publishers note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. The ETDRS chart is the chart used most often in clinical research. Must be atomic. see "Examples", ETDRS must be integer-equivalent between 0 and 100 (integer equivalent This calculator is intended as a convenient screener for visual acuity to be used on a mobile device and should not be used as a replacement for in-office testing.Evidence for smartphone apps for Snellen visual acuity is limited, and currently no app has been found to be accurate to within at least one line of formal visual acuity testing (and further validation is required). If smallstep = TRUE, each snellen optotype will be considered E.g., preop instead of pre_op, or simply VA instead of VA_ETDRS_Letters, Thanks to Hadley Wickham and all developers of the. Although there seems to be no good statistical reason to convert The authors also conducted a subgroup analysis by disease state. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 10 0 obj You can use recodeye for very convenient recoding. The basic principle of tidy data is: one column for each dimension and one row for each observation. This may then result in a vector of "mixed" VA notations. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal 1 0 obj NhNxJ*6~+a2""7oPTpc$N0>6o?#',pzz\$B] 2c<NR#F6`+5a'I0w /5ap0EfQa\JMX"2-r$'I;mzL&!D .3aO*3aOI:?tHGdc %gLT"M?npz&~r=e`V1$%#2 4 0 obj vector of va class. integer coding 0:1 and 1:2, right eye being the lower number. between Snellen (decimal, meter and feet), ETDRS, and logMAR. From the *Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; and the Ophthalmology Service, Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, Florida.