pull_data: Pull Surveycto data in R

In Anoopsinghrawat/snxt: CONTAINS FUNCTIONS FREQUENTLY USED AT THE NETWORKS LAB

Description

This function pulls data from surveycto using their api. Typically, numeric fields will be read as character by R when downloaded using the api. User will manually need to convert the field types as necessary.

Usage

pull_data(formid, servername, username, password, key = NULL, newserver = T)

Arguments

formid	character: is the Surveycto form id.
servername	character: is the name of the Surveycto server.
username	character: is the username for the account being used to login to the server.
password	character: is the password for the account being used to login to the server.
key	character: name of the private encryption file, if applicable. If it doesn't contain an absolute path, the file name is relative to the current working directory, getwd(). If the form is encrypted and a key is not provided, only the fields marked as publishable will be returned. Defaults to NULL.
newserver	logical: TRUE for surveycto version 2.70 and above. FALSE otherwise. Default is TRUE.

Value

A dataframe containing the formdata in wide format

Examples

gp_survey<- pull_data("gp_survey_v1","gpcovid19","user(at)gmail.com","difficultpassword$793")
gp_survey_encrypted<-pull_data("gp_survey_v1","gpcovid19","user(at)gmail.com","difficultpassword$793", key="C:/Users/Dropbox/gp_project/encryption_keys/gpkey_PRIVATEDONOTSHARE.pem")

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