copyAnnotations: Copy annotations from another record in REDCap

In FredHutch/tgR: TGR Convenience Functions

Description

Copies the study, specimen and assay material metadata from another record in the Repository

Usage

copyAnnotations(
  copyFrom = NULL,
  copyTo = NULL,
  type = c("submission", "study"),
  overwriteExisting = FALSE
)

Arguments

copyFrom	The molecular_id of the record to copy data from
copyTo	The molecular_id of the record to edit using copied data
type	A character array of the types of annotations you want to copy: "submission", "study", "subject", "biospecimen", "assaymaterial", "genomics". Default: c("submission", "study")
overwriteExisting	Default to false. If data exists in the record to edit, do you want to overwrite existing data?

Details

Requires valid credentials to be set in the environment with setCreds() and to have write privileges to the data

Value

Results of the copy attempt including the data of the new record as well as the REDCap response.

Author(s)

Amy Paguirigan

FredHutch/tgR documentation built on Oct. 5, 2021, 8:39 a.m.