ds2dd function

(DEPRECATED) Data set to data dictionary function

Creates a very basic data dictionary skeleton. Please see ds2dd_detailed() for a more advanced function.

ds2dd(
  ds,
  record.id = "record_id",
  form.name = "basis",
  field.type = "text",
  field.label = NULL,
  include.column.names = FALSE,
  metadata = names(REDCapCAST::redcapcast_meta)
)

Arguments

• ds: data set
• record.id: name or column number of id variable, moved to first row of data dictionary, character of integer. Default is "record_id".
• form.name: vector of form names, character string, length 1 or length equal to number of variables. Default is "basis".
• field.type: vector of field types, character string, length 1 or length equal to number of variables. Default is "text.
• field.label: vector of form names, character string, length 1 or length equal to number of variables. Default is NULL and is then identical to field names.
• include.column.names: Flag to give detailed output including new column names for original data set for upload.
• metadata: Metadata column names. Default is the included names(REDCapCAST::redcapcast_meta).

Returns

data.frame or list of data.frame and vector

Details

Migrated from stRoke ds2dd(). Fits better with the functionality of 'REDCapCAST'.

Examples

redcapcast_data$record_id <- seq_len(nrow(redcapcast_data))
ds2dd(redcapcast_data, include.column.names = TRUE)