[FEATURE] REDCapTidieR v0.5 Wish List

[rsh52]

Feature Request Description

Definitely include in 0.5 (September 2023)

• Error checking for make_labelled(format_labels = …) should include checking that user didn’t pass a function with parens.
  • Look at other functions. Do we check all args of all exported functions?
  • Add functions to extract metadata: extract_metadata_tibble() and extract_metadata_tibbles()
    • Would be useful to have an option to extract all metadata tibbles into one tibble
    • I don’t think bind_metadata_tibbles() is such a good idea
  • drop_labels()
    • Useful if you use a labelled table but then want to pipe data into a function that doesn’t like labels. Similar to tidyREDCap::drop_label()
  • Add complete_pct column to supertibble
    • At least a superficial check that REDCapTidieR works well with REDCap multi-language management-enabled projects

Possibly include in 0.5, maybe later

• Codebooks ~ in collaboration with Ray Balise: write_codebook_html(), write_codebook_word(), write_codebook_md()
  • Write a publication-quality codebook
  • Should support skimr
• Write separate function to extract REDCap project info (read_redcap_project_info())?
  • One row per tibble
  • Should support “big dumb box” parsing from YAML
  • Extract log into redcap_log. This should be off by default.
  • Extract users into redcap_users. This should probably be off by default.
  • Extract dags into redcap_dags. Should be on or off by default? Can we detect if DAGs are on?

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[JanMarvin]

• Some tests require packages from suggest (labelled,httptest, and skimr). Maybe you could add something like skip_if_not_installed() for these? I ran a revdep and it failed due to these packages missing. [Edit:] probably openxlsx2 as well. I only listed packages that were not already installed on my system.

[rsh52]

• Some tests require packages from suggest (labelled,httptest, and skimr). Maybe you could add something like skip_if_not_installed() for these? I ran a revdep and it failed due to these packages missing. [Edit:] probably openxlsx2 as well. I only listed packages that were not already installed on my system.

Ah thank you so much for the advice and heads up! We will definitely implement this, probably within a 0.4 patch.

[skadauke]

@rsh52 and @ezraporter, can we break this issue into backlog issues? Also, maybe we can do the complete_pct (form_complete_pct?) one, should be easy, and would be nice to see the percentage of records that have the form marked as completed.

[rsh52]

New issues opened for remaining wishlist items, closing this for now.