cleanseMetaData: Clean Meta Data of UTF Characters

In chillywings/rctools: Tools for REDCap API and data manipulation

Clean Meta Data of UTF Characters

Description

There have been isolated cases observed where certain characters in the data data_dictionary prevent it from being downloaded correctly. In one case, the data data_dictionary could not be downloaded at all through the API. It is suspected that these problematic characters are a result of copying and pasting text out of word processing programs. The problematic characters are not necessarily visible and their exact location can be difficult to identify. As a last resort, cleanseMetaData can read a meta data file downloaded through the user interface, purge it of any UTF-8 characters, and write an alternate data data_dictionary that contains only ASCII characters.

Usage

cleanseMetaData(data_dict_file, data_dict_clean, overwrite = FALSE)

Arguments

data_dict_file	character(1) the path to a meta data file that has been downloaded using the REDCap user interface.
data_dict_clean	character(1) the path of the file to which the cleaned meta data will be written.
overwrite	logical(1) Permit the new file to overwrite an existing file

Author(s)

Benjamin Nutter

chillywings/rctools documentation built on Aug. 9, 2024, 11:52 p.m.