#' focused_metadata #' @description Extracts limited metadata for variables in a dataset #' @param metadata A dataframe containing metadata #' @param vars_in_data Vector of variable names in the dataset #' @return A dataframe containing metadata for the variables in the dataset #' @export #' focused_metadata <- function(metadata, vars_in_data) { if (any(c("tbl_df", "tbl") %in% class(metadata))) { metadata <- data.frame(metadata) } field_name <- grepl(".*[Ff]ield[._][Nn]ame$", names(metadata)) field_type <- grepl(".*[Ff]ield[._][Tt]ype$", names(metadata)) fields <- metadata[!metadata[, field_type] %in% c("descriptive", "checkbox") & metadata[, field_name] %in% vars_in_data, field_name] # Process checkbox fields if (any(metadata[, field_type] == "checkbox")) { # Getting base field names from checkbox fields vars_check <- sub(pattern = "___.*$", replacement = "", vars_in_data) # Processing checkbox_basenames <- metadata[metadata[, field_type] == "checkbox" & metadata[, field_name] %in% vars_check, field_name] fields <- c(fields, checkbox_basenames) } # Process instrument status fields form_names <- unique(metadata[, grepl(".*[Ff]orm[._][Nn]ame$", names(metadata))][metadata[, field_name] %in% fields]) form_complete_fields <- paste0(form_names, "_complete") fields <- c(fields, form_complete_fields) # Process survey timestamps timestamps <- intersect(vars_in_data, paste0(form_names, "_timestamp")) if (length(timestamps)) { timestamp_fields <- timestamps fields <- c(fields, timestamp_fields) } # Process ".*\\.factor" fields supplied by REDCap's export data R script if (any(grepl("\\.factor$", vars_in_data))) { factor_fields <- do.call("rbind", apply(fields, 1, function(x, y) { field_indices <- grepl(paste0("^", x[1], "\\.factor$"), y) if (any(field_indices)) data.frame( field_name = y[field_indices], form_name = x[2], stringsAsFactors = FALSE, row.names = NULL ) }, y = vars_in_data)) fields <- c(fields, factor_fields[, 1]) } metadata[metadata[, field_name] %in% fields, ] } # function to convert the list of dataframes #' Sanitize list of data frames #' #' Removing empty rows #' @param l A list of data frames. #' @param generic.names A vector of generic names to be excluded. #' #' @return A list of data frames with generic names excluded. #' #' @export #' #' sanitize_split <- function(l, generic.names = c( "record_id", "redcap_event_name", "redcap_repeat_instrument", "redcap_repeat_instance" )) { lapply(l, function(i) { if (ncol(i) > 2) { s <- data.frame(i[, !colnames(i) %in% generic.names]) i[!apply(is.na(s), MARGIN = 1, FUN = all),] } else { i } }) } #' Match fields to forms #' #' @param metadata A data frame containing field names and form names #' @param vars_in_data A character vector of variable names #' #' @return A data frame containing field names and form names #' #' @export #' #' match_fields_to_form <- function(metadata, vars_in_data) { field_form_name <- grepl(".*([Ff]ield|[Ff]orm)[._][Nn]ame$",names(metadata)) field_type <- grepl(".*[Ff]ield[._][Tt]ype$",names(metadata)) fields <- metadata[!metadata[,field_type] %in% c("descriptive", "checkbox"), field_form_name] names(fields) <- c("field_name", "form_name") # Process instrument status fields form_names <- unique(metadata[,grepl(".*[Ff]orm[._][Nn]ame$",names(metadata))]) form_complete_fields <- data.frame( field_name = paste0(form_names, "_complete"), form_name = form_names, stringsAsFactors = FALSE ) fields <- rbind(fields, form_complete_fields) # Process survey timestamps timestamps <- intersect(vars_in_data, paste0(form_names, "_timestamp")) if (length(timestamps)) { timestamp_fields <- data.frame( field_name = timestamps, form_name = sub("_timestamp$", "", timestamps), stringsAsFactors = FALSE ) fields <- rbind(fields, timestamp_fields) } # Process checkbox fields if (any(metadata[,field_type] == "checkbox")) { checkbox_basenames <- metadata[metadata[,field_type] == "checkbox", field_form_name] checkbox_fields <- do.call("rbind", apply(checkbox_basenames, 1, function(x, y) data.frame( field_name = y[grepl(paste0("^", x[1], "___((?!\\.factor).)+$"), y, perl = TRUE)], form_name = x[2], stringsAsFactors = FALSE, row.names = NULL ), y = vars_in_data)) fields <- rbind(fields, checkbox_fields) } # Process ".*\\.factor" fields supplied by REDCap's export data R script if (any(grepl("\\.factor$", vars_in_data))) { factor_fields <- do.call("rbind", apply(fields, 1, function(x, y) { field_indices <- grepl(paste0("^", x[1], "\\.factor$"), y) if (any(field_indices)) data.frame( field_name = y[field_indices], form_name = x[2], stringsAsFactors = FALSE, row.names = NULL ) }, y = vars_in_data)) fields <- rbind(fields, factor_fields) } fields } #' Split a data frame into separate tables for each form #' #' @param table A data frame #' @param universal_fields A character vector of fields that should be included #' in every table #' @param fields A two-column matrix containing the names of fields that should #' be included in each form #' #' @return A list of data frames, one for each non-repeating form #' #' @export #' #' @examples #' # Create a table #' table <- data.frame( #' id = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), #' form_a_name = c("John", "Alice", "Bob", "Eve", "Mallory"), #' form_a_age = c(25, 30, 25, 15, 20), #' form_b_name = c("John", "Alice", "Bob", "Eve", "Mallory"), #' form_b_gender = c("M", "F", "M", "F", "F") #' ) #' #' # Create the universal fields #' universal_fields <- c("id") #' #' # Create the fields #' fields <- matrix( #' c("form_a_name", "form_a", #' "form_a_age", "form_a", #' "form_b_name", "form_b", #' "form_b_gender", "form_b"), #' ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE #' ) #' #' # Split the table #' split_non_repeating_forms(table, universal_fields, fields) split_non_repeating_forms <- function(table, universal_fields, fields) { forms <- unique(fields[[2]]) x <- lapply(forms, function (x) { table[names(table) %in% union(universal_fields, fields[fields[, 2] == x, 1])] }) structure(x, names = forms) }