GenerateCodeForDateCasting: Autogenerate code for date conversion from valid string date...

In smockin/RedcapData: Data management utility support for REDCap repositories

Autogenerate code for date conversion from valid string date representations

Description

This is a utility function that employs code generation to produce R code for data recoding purposes.

Usage

generate_date_conversion_code(metadata, dataset_name = "data",
  negative_char = "_")

Arguments

metadata	REDCap metadata
dataset_name	Name of the dataset that will be recorded in place.
negative_char	checkbox expansion character for a negative checkbox level

Details

Using the redcap metadata, code is generated that converts character dates to R Date variables.

This can come in handy when using the data for date-based operations such as subsetting or panel data analysis.

Value

Code that can be evaluated to recode apppropriate strings to R dates

See Also

Other Code Generators: generate_data_validation_code, generate_formatting_code, generate_remove_missing_code, generate_remove_outliers_code

smockin/RedcapData documentation built on Feb. 2, 2023, 3:19 a.m.