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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. 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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I started working on this project as the castellated longitudinal data set was a little challenging. Later, I have come to learn of the redcapAPI package, which would also cover this functionality. I find the redcapAPIpackage quite advanced and a little difficult to work with. This have led to the continued work on this package, as an easy-to-use approach for data migration, data base creation and data handling. This package is very much to be seen as an attempt at a R-to-REDCap-to-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 desirable for handling sensitive, clinical data. Please refer to REDCap-Tools for other great tools for working with REDCap in R.

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For any more advanced uses, consider using the redcapAPI package.

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This package is a fork of 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. The REDCapRITS as well as REDCapCAST would not be possible without the outstanding work in REDCapR.

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What problem does REDCapCAST solve? +

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I started working on this project as the castellated longitudinal data set was a little challenging. Later, I have come to learn of the redcapAPI package, which would also cover this functionality. I find the redcapAPIpackage quite advanced and a little difficult to work with. This have led to the continued work on this package, as an easy-to-use approach for data migration, data base creation and data handling. This package is very much to be seen as an attempt at a R-to-REDCap-to-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 desirable for handling sensitive, clinical data. Please refer to REDCap-Tools for other great tools for working with REDCap in R.

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For any more advanced uses, consider using the redcapAPI or REDCapR packages.

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Main functionality

Here is just a short description of the main functions: