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# REDCapCAST package <img src="man/figures/logo.png" align="right" />
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REDCap database casting and handling of castellated data when using repeated instruments and longitudinal projects.
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This package is a fork of [pegeler/REDCapRITS](https://github.com/pegeler/REDCapRITS). The REDCapRITS represents great and extensive work to handle castellated REDCap data in different programming languages. This fork is purely minded on R usage and includes a few implementations of the main `REDCap_split` function.
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THis package is very much to be seen as an attempt at a REDCap-R foundry for handling both the transition from dataset/variable list to database and the other way, from REDCap database to a tidy dataset. The goal was also to allow for a "minimal data" approach by allowing to filter records, instruments and variables in the export to only download data needed. I think this approach is desireable for handling sensitive, clinical data. No similar functionality is available from similar tools (like `REDCapR` or `REDCapTidieR`). Please refer to [REDCap-Tools](https://redcap-tools.github.io/) for other great tools.
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## Use and immprovements
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This package is primarily relevant for working with longitudinal projects and/or projects using repeated instruments. Here is just a short descirption of the main functions:
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* `REDcap_split()`: Works largely as the original `REDCapRITS::REDCap_split()`. It takes a REDCap dataset and metadata (data dictionary) to split the data set into a list of dataframes of instruments.
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* `read_redcap_tables()`: wraps the use of [`REDCapR::redcap_read()`](https://github.com/OuhscBbmc/REDCapR) with `REDCap_split()` to ease the export of REDCap data.
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* `redcap_wider()`: pivots each data frame with repeated instruments to a wide format utilizing the [`tidyr::pivot_wider()`](https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/reference/pivot_wider.html) from the [tidyverse](https://www.tidyverse.org/).
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* `easy_redcap()`: combines secure API key storage with the `keyring`-package, focused data retrieval and optional widening. This is the recommended approach for easy data access and analysis.
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## Future
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The plan with this package is to be bundled with a Handbook on working with REDCap from R. I plan to also include functionality to assist in casting (yes, pun intended) the initial REDCap database.
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## Installation
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The package is available on CRAN. Install the latest version:
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```
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install.packages("REDCapCAST")
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```
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Install the latest version directly from GitHub:
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```
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remotes::install_github("agdamsbo/REDCapCAST")
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```
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