clean_redcap_long function

Extract longitudinal REDCap databases into tidy tibbles

Helper function internal to read_redcap responsible for extraction and final processing of a tidy tibble to the user from a longitudinal REDCap database.

clean_redcap_long(
  db_data_long,
  db_metadata_long,
  linked_arms,
  allow_mixed_structure = FALSE
)

Arguments

• db_data_long: The longitudinal REDCap database output defined by REDCapR::redcap_read_oneshot()$data
• db_metadata_long: The longitudinal REDCap metadata output defined by REDCapR::redcap_metadata_read()$data
• linked_arms: Output of link_arms, linking instruments to REDCap events/arms
• allow_mixed_structure: A logical to allow for support of mixed repeating/non-repeating instruments. Setting to TRUE will treat the mixed instrument's non-repeating versions as repeating instruments with a single instance. Applies to longitudinal projects only. Default FALSE.

Returns

Returns a tibble with list elements containing tidy dataframes. Users can access dataframes under the redcap_data column with reference to form_name and structure column details.