REDCapTidieR 0.4.0

Version 0.4.0 (Released 2023-06-02)

New Features

• Introduces new functions add_skimr_metadata() and write_redcap_xlsx() with supporting documentation
• read_redcap() now supports Data Access Groups (DAGs)
  • New argument available to read_redcap(): export_data_access_groups

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where REDCapR API error messages weren’t being returned from REDCapTidieR

Miscellaneous

• All deprecated functions have been officially retired and removed from the package

REDCapTidieR 0.3.0

Version 0.3.0 (Released 2023-03-17)

New Features

• read_redcap() now supports projects with repeating events which introduced a breaking change to data tibble column names
  • redcap_repeat_instance is now redcap_form_instance
  • redcap_event_instance has been added to denote repeating events

Performance Improvements and Enhancements

• Improved error message suite:
  • Helpful error message provided for various conditions related to REDCap API calls
  • Helpful error messages added for checks across all exported functions
  • Unexpected error messages provided with direction to submitting bug reports
    • Improved error messages for label parsing
  • Added select_choices_and_calculations exported by the REDCap API to redcap_metadata tibble
• Improved process for adding/updating httptest mocks

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the suppress_redcapr_messages argument for read_redcap() was not working appropriately
• Fixed a bug where read_redcap() would fail when select_choices_and_calculations was missing whitespace after commas (discovered by @camcaan)
• Fixed a bug where read_redcap() would fail for projects with a multiple choice field having duplicate values with the same label
  • Added a warning when REDCapTidieR detects this
• Fixed a bug where empty rows would appear in data tibbles in longitudinal REDCap exports for events containing a mix of empty and filled forms
• Fixed a bug where the forms specification in read_redcap() may lead to incorrect removal of data for databases with repeating events

Version 0.2.0 (Released 2022-12-07)

New Features

• Function name changes:
  • read_redcap_tidy() is now read_redcap()
  • extract_table() is now extract_tibble()
  • extract_tables() is now extract_tibbles()
  • bind_table() is now bind_tibbles()
    • All old functions are still supported and throw a deprecation warning
• Instrument/form-level metadata included in supertibble output:
  • redcap_form_label: The instrument’s human-readable label
  • redcap_metadata: REDCap metadata associated with the instrument (derived from REDCapR::redcap_metadata_read())
  • redcap_events: Events and arms associated with this instrument (for longitudinal projects only)
  • data_rows, data_cols: Row and column counts of redcap_data
  • data_size: Size of the redcap_data tibble in memory
  • data_na_pct: The percentage of missing data in the redcap_data tibble
• New make_labelled() function that attaches variable labels using the labelled package
• New arguments available read_redcap():
  • forms: Allows reading specific instruments instead of the whole project
  • export_survey_fields: Allows for export of redcap_survey_timestamp and redcap_survey_identifier columns from survey-enabled REDCap instruments (TRUE by default)

Performance Improvements and Enhancements

• Improved execution time by >2.5X by optimizing internal functions check_repeat_and_nonrepeat(), distill_*_table_long(), and multi_choice_to_labels()
• New informative warning and error messages, now rendered using the cli package
• Tests and vignettes now use httptest to mock and cache REDCap API calls
• Implemented GitHub Actions link check
• Replaced deprecated .data pronoun in tidyselect expressions

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in which similarly named variables could be duplicated under some circumstances
• Order of instruments in the supertibble is now the same as the order of instruments in REDCap
• Fixed an issue in which extract_*() functions under some circumstances returned NULL instead of the expected tibbles

Version 0.1.3 (Released 2022-10-03)

Documentation Updates

• Fixed a bug where clean_redcap() may not correctly assign variables across instruments to their appropriate tables in cases of similar prefixes
• Minor changes applied to documentation, includingREADME and DESCRIPTION files

Version 0.1.2 (Released 2022-09-20)

Documentation Updates

• Addresses feedback received from CRAN
• DESCRIPTION file fixes for undirected quotation marks (e.g. REDCap to ‘REDCap’)
• Fix quotations in @examples tags for bind_tables and extract_table
• Update pkgdown site

Version 0.1.1 (Released 2022-09-19)

Documentation Updates

• Addresses feedback received from CRAN
• DESCRIPTION file fixes for spell check notes
• roxygen2 examples updated

Version 0.1 (Released 2022-09-15)

New Features

• Introduces read_redcap_tidy(), bind_tables(), extract_table(), and extract_tables() with documentation

GitHub Commits and Releases

• For a detailed change log, please see https://github.com/CHOP-CGTInformatics/REDCapTidieR/commits/main.
• For a list of the major releases, please see https://github.com/CHOP-CGTInformatics/REDCapTidieR/releases.