#' Download REDCap data #' #' Wrapper function for using REDCapR::redcap_read and REDCapRITS::REDCap_split including some clean-up. #' Handles #' @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 generics vector of auto-generated generic variable names to ignore when discarding empty rows #' #' @return list of instruments #' @export #' #' @importFrom REDCapR redcap_read #' @importFrom REDCapRITS REDCap_split #' #' @examples #' # Examples will be provided later read_redcap_tables <- function(uri, token, records=NULL, fields=NULL, events=NULL, forms=NULL, generics=c("record_id", "redcap_event_name", "redcap_repeat_instrument", "redcap_repeat_instance")){ # Notes to self: Based on the metadata, this functionality could be introduced without using the REDCapRITS package.. To be tried.. d <- REDCapR::redcap_read (redcap_uri = uri, token = token, fields=fields, events=events, forms=forms, records=records) m <- REDCapR::redcap_metadata_read (redcap_uri = uri,token = token) l <- REDCapRITS::REDCap_split(d$data, m$data[m$data$field_name %in% names(d$data),], forms = "all") lapply(l, function(i){ if (ncol(i) > 2){ s <- data.frame(i[,!colnames(i) %in% generics]) i[!apply(is.na(s),MARGIN=1, FUN=all), ] } else {i} } ) }