GenerateCodeForFormatting: Autogenerate code for data formatting (variable and data...

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also

Description

This is a utility function that employs code generation to produce R code that formats data.

Usage

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generate_formatting_code(metadata, dataset_name = "data")

Arguments

metadata

REDCap metadata

dataset_name

Name of the dataset that will be recorded in place.

Details

Using the redcap metadata, code is generated that formats data.

It recodes categorical data to factors.

This makes it easier to perform traditional statistical analysis which often expects coded categorical variables as input.

Value

Code that can be evaluated to format data.

See Also

Other Code Generators: generate_data_validation_code, generate_error_report_code; generate_date_conversion_code; generate_remove_missing_code; generate_remove_outliers_code


Maglado/redcapdata_p documentation built on May 26, 2019, 4:37 p.m.