#' Download REDCap data #' #' Wrapper function for using REDCapR::redcap_read and REDCapRITS::REDCap_split #' 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 generics vector of auto-generated generic variable names to #' ignore when discarding empty rows #' #' @return list of instruments #' @export #' #' @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) if (requireNamespace("REDCapRITS", quietly = TRUE)) { l <- REDCapRITS::REDCap_split(d$data, m$data[m$data$field_name %in% names(d$data),], forms = "all") } else { cli::cli_abort( c( "x" = "The package REDCapRITS is not installed.", "i" = "Please install REDCapRITS by running \"remotes::install_github('agdamsbo/REDCapRITS')\"." ) ) } 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 } }) }