#' Download REDCap data #' #' Implementation of REDCap_split with a focused data acquisition approach using #' REDCapR::redcap_read nad only downloading specified fields, forms and/or events #' using the built-in focused_metadata #' including some clean-up. Works with longitudinal projects with repeating #' instruments. #' @param uri REDCap database uri #' @param token API token #' @param records records to download #' @param fields fields to download #' @param events events to download #' @param forms forms to download #' @param raw_or_label raw or label tags #' @param split_forms Whether to split "repeating" or "all" forms, default is all. #' @param generics vector of auto-generated generic variable names to #' ignore when discarding empty rows #' #' @return list of instruments #' @importFrom REDCapR redcap_metadata_read redcap_read redcap_event_instruments #' @include utils.r #' @export #' #' @examples #' # Examples will be provided later read_redcap_tables <- function(uri, token, records = NULL, fields = NULL, events = NULL, forms = NULL, raw_or_label = "label", split_forms = "all", generics = c( "record_id", "redcap_event_name", "redcap_repeat_instrument", "redcap_repeat_instance" )) { if (!is.null(forms) | !is.null(events)){ arm_event_inst <- REDCapR::redcap_event_instruments(redcap_uri = uri, token = token) if (!is.null(forms)){ forms_test <- forms %in% unique(arm_event_inst$data$form) if (any(!forms_test)){ stop("Not all supplied forms are valid") } } if (!is.null(events)){ event_test <- events %in% unique(arm_event_inst$data$unique_event_name) if (any(!forms_test)){ stop("Not all supplied event names are valid") } } } # Getting dataset d <- REDCapR::redcap_read( redcap_uri = uri, token = token, fields = fields, events = events, forms = forms, records = records, raw_or_label = raw_or_label )[["data"]] # Process repeat instrument naming # Removes any extra characters other than a-z, 0-9 and "_", to mimic raw instrument names. if ("redcap_repeat_instrument" %in% names(d)) { d$redcap_repeat_instrument <- gsub("[^a-z0-9_]", "", gsub(" ", "_", tolower(d$redcap_repeat_instrument))) } # Getting metadata m <- REDCapR::redcap_metadata_read (redcap_uri = uri, token = token)[["data"]] # Processing metadata to reflect dataset if (!is.null(c(fields,forms,events))){ m <- focused_metadata(m,names(d)) } # Splitting l <- REDCap_split(d, m, forms = split_forms, primary_table_name = "nonrepeating") # Sanitizing split list by removing completely empty rows apart from colnames # in "generics" sanitize_split(l,generics) }