secuTrialR: Handling of Data from the Clinical Data Management System 'secuTrial'

Readme for sT_exports

This readme file contains information about file structure and naming conventions used in the directory inst/extdata/sT_exports.

BMD - contains secuTrial exports associated with the Bone Mineral Density (BMD) dataset
encodings - contains secuTrial exports relevant for encoding
lnames - contains a collection of secuTrial exports with long table names
snames - contains a collection of secuTrial exports with short table names
exp_opt - contains a collection of secuTrial exports with differing export options
change_tracking - contains exports with differing project setups and without any case data
subset - contains partial secuTrial exports based on study centre. This is needed for testing the secuTrialdata subsetting functionality.

Following naming convention is used for all secuTrial exports contained within inst/extdata/sT_exports:

s_export_CSV-xls - all exports start with this string, followed by underscore separated tags listed below
project tag - short alpha numeric tag in capital letters that stands for the secuTrial database the data was extracted from
rt - export in rectangular table format
short - export with shortened table names
long - export with full table names
meta - export with duplicated form metadata in all tables
ref - export with reference values in a separate table
no- - export without Add-ID and without Pat-ID
no - export specifically omitting certain export options
miss - export with missing values
language tag - export in a language. possible tags: en / de / fr / es / it / pl / unsupported
encoding tag - export encoding settings e.g. "utf16", "utf8", etc.

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