cleanseMetaData

There have been isolated cases observed where certain 
 characters in the data dictionary prevent it from being downloaded
 correctly. In one case, the data dictionary could not be downloaded
 at all through the API. It is suspected that these problematic 
 characters are a result of copying and pasting text out of word 
 processing programs. The problematic characters are not necessarily 
 visible and their exact location can be difficult to identify. As 
 a last resort, <code>cleanseMetaData</code> can read a meta data file 
 downloaded through the user interface, purge it of any UTF-8 characters,
 and write an alternate data dictionary that contains only ASCII 
 characters.

Access data stored in 'REDCap' databases using the Application
Programming Interface (API). 'REDCap' (Research Electronic Data CAPture;
<https://projectredcap.org>, Harris, et al. (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2008.08.010>,
Harris, et al. (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103208>) is
a web application for building and managing online surveys and databases
developed at Vanderbilt University. The API allows users to access data
and project meta data (such as the data dictionary) from the web
programmatically. The 'redcapAPI' package facilitates the process of
accessing data with options to prepare an analysis-ready data set
consistent with the definitions in a database's data dictionary.

Shawn Garbett

redcapAPI

Interface to 'REDCap'

Benjamin Nutter

Stephen Lane

Will Beasley

Jeffrey Horner

Will Gray

Jeremy Stephens

Marcus Lehr

Cole Beck

Savannah Obregon

cleanseMetaData function

<dl><dt>meta_data_file</dt>
<dd><code>character(1)</code> the path to a meta data file 
that has been downloaded using the REDCap user interface.</dd>
<dt>meta_data_clean</dt>
<dd><code>character(1)</code> the path of the file to which
the cleaned meta data will be written.</dd>
<dt>overwrite</dt>
<dd><code>logical(1)</code> Permit the new file to overwrite an 
existing file.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Clean Meta Data of UTF Characters — cleanseMetaData

<dl>

<dt>meta_data_file</dt>
<dd><code>character(1)</code> the path to a meta data file 
that has been downloaded using the REDCap user interface.</dd>


<dt>meta_data_clean</dt>
<dd><code>character(1)</code> the path of the file to which
the cleaned meta data will be written.</dd>


<dt>overwrite</dt>
<dd><code>logical(1)</code> Permit the new file to overwrite an 
existing file.</dd>

</dl>

Clean Meta Data of UTF Characters

cleanseMetaData: Clean Meta Data of UTF Characters

Description

Usage

Arguments