dataset_info: Inspect a Clinical Trial Dataset Without Downloading

In clinTrialData: Clinical Trial Example Datasets

Inspect a Clinical Trial Dataset Without Downloading

Description

Fetches and displays metadata for any study available in the clinTrialData library – without downloading the full dataset. Metadata includes the study description, available domains and datasets, subject count, version, and data source attribution.

For studies already downloaded via download_study(), the metadata is read from the local cache and works offline. For studies not yet downloaded, a small JSON file (~2KB) is fetched from the GitHub Release.

Usage

dataset_info(source, repo = "Lovemore-Gakava/clinTrialData")

Arguments

source	Character string. Name of the study (e.g. "cdisc_pilot_extended"). Use list_available_studies() to see all options.
repo	GitHub repository in the form "owner/repo". Defaults to the official clinTrialData release repository.

Value

Invisibly returns the metadata as a named list.

Examples

dataset_info("cdisc_pilot")

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