redcap_prep_dates: Convert dates stored as strings to 'Date' variables

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Convert dates stored as strings to Date variables

Description

Converts the string values returned from REDCap to Dates. This function also applies labels to the variable itself, based on the option label.

Usage

redcap_prep_dates(data, metadata, replace = FALSE, append = "_date")

redcap_prep_datetimes(
  data,
  metadata,
  replace = FALSE,
  append = "_datetime",
  ...
)

Arguments

data	the data.frame to modify
metadata	metadata/datadictionary
replace	whether to overwrite the existing data .
append	text to append to the variable name if not overwriting
...	options passed to/from other methods

Value

input data.frame with additional date variables/variables converted to dates.

Functions

• redcap_prep_datetimes(): input data.frame with date-time variables reformated to POSIX

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