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