ds2dd: (DEPRECATED) Data set to data dictionary function

In REDCapCAST: REDCap Metadata Casting and Castellated Data Handling

(DEPRECATED) Data set to data dictionary function

Description

Creates a very basic data dictionary skeleton. Please see 'ds2dd_detailed()' for a more advanced function.

Usage

ds2dd(
  ds,
  record.id = "record_id",
  form.name = "basis",
  field.type = "text",
  field.label = NULL,
  include.column.names = FALSE,
  metadata = names(REDCapCAST::redcapcast_meta)
)

Arguments

ds	data set
record.id	name or column number of id variable, moved to first row of data dictionary, character of integer. Default is "record_id".
form.name	vector of form names, character string, length 1 or length equal to number of variables. Default is "basis".
field.type	vector of field types, character string, length 1 or length equal to number of variables. Default is "text.
field.label	vector of form names, character string, length 1 or length equal to number of variables. Default is NULL and is then identical to field names.
include.column.names	Flag to give detailed output including new column names for original data set for upload.
metadata	Metadata column names. Default is the included names(REDCapCAST::redcapcast_meta).

Details

Migrated from stRoke ds2dd(). Fits better with the functionality of 'REDCapCAST'.

Value

data.frame or list of data.frame and vector

Examples

redcapcast_data$record_id <- seq_len(nrow(redcapcast_data))
ds2dd(redcapcast_data, include.column.names = TRUE)

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