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Download REDCap Instruments

Source: R/redcap-instrument-download.R
redcap_instrument_download.Rd

Download instruments as a pdf, with or without responses.

Usage

redcap_instrument_download(
  file_name = NULL,
  directory = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  redcap_uri,
  token,
  record = character(0),
  instrument = "",
  event = "",
  verbose = TRUE,
  config_options = NULL,
  handle_httr = NULL
)

Arguments

file_name

The name of the file where the downloaded pdf is saved. Optional.

directory

The directory where the file is saved. By default current directory. Optional.

overwrite

Boolean value indicating if existing files should be overwritten. Optional.

redcap_uri

The uri/url of the REDCap server typically formatted as "https://server.org/apps/redcap/api/". Required.

token

The user-specific string that serves as the password for a project. Required.

record

The record ID of the instrument(s). If empty, the responses are blank. Optional.

instrument

The instrument(s) to download. If empty, all instruments are returned. Optional.

event

The unique event name. For a longitudinal project, if record is not blank and event is blank, it will return data for all events from that record. If record is not blank and event is not blank, it will return data only for the specified event from that record. Optional.

verbose

A boolean value indicating if messages should be printed to the R console during the operation. Optional.

config_options

A list of options passed to httr::POST(). See details at httr::httr_options(). Optional.

handle_httr

The value passed to the handle parameter of httr::POST(). This is useful for only unconventional authentication approaches. It should be NULL for most institutions. Optional.

Value

Currently, a list is returned with the following elements,

  • success: A boolean value indicating if the operation was apparently successful.

  • status_code: The http status code of the operation.

  • outcome_message: A human readable string indicating the operation's outcome.

  • record_id: The record_id of the instrument.

  • elapsed_seconds: The duration of the function.

  • raw_text: If an operation is NOT successful, the text returned by REDCap. If an operation is successful, the raw_text is returned as an empty string to save RAM.

  • file_name: The name of the file persisted to disk. This is useful if the name stored in REDCap is used (which is the default).

Details

Currently, the function doesn't modify any variable types to conform to REDCap's supported variables. See validate_for_write() for a helper function that checks for some common important conflicts.

The function redcap_download_instrument() is soft-deprecated as of REDCapR 1.2.0. Please rename to redcap_instrument_download().

References

The official documentation can be found on the 'API Help Page' and 'API Examples' pages on the REDCap wiki (i.e., https://community.projectredcap.org/articles/456/api-documentation.html and https://community.projectredcap.org/articles/462/api-examples.html). If you do not have an account for the wiki, please ask your campus REDCap administrator to send you the static material.

Author

Will Beasley

Examples

# \dontrun{
uri     <- "https://redcap-dev-2.ouhsc.edu/redcap/api/"
token   <- "F9CBFFF78C3D78F641BAE9623F6B7E6A" # simple-write
# event <- "" # only for longitudinal projects

(full_name <- base::tempfile(pattern="instruments-all-records-all", fileext = ".pdf"))
#> [1] "/var/folders/0w/4z5l9vds32nbkz7l22n8j6s80000gn/T//Rtmp5sBVRN/instruments-all-records-all116520c1fcc1.pdf"
result_1   <- REDCapR::redcap_instrument_download(
  file_name     = full_name,
  redcap_uri    = uri,
  token         = token
)
#> Preparing to download the file `/var/folders/0w/4z5l9vds32nbkz7l22n8j6s80000gn/T//Rtmp5sBVRN/instruments-all-records-all116520c1fcc1.pdf`.
#> text/html; charset=UTF-8 successfully downloaded in 0.2 seconds, and saved as /var/folders/0w/4z5l9vds32nbkz7l22n8j6s80000gn/T//Rtmp5sBVRN/instruments-all-records-all116520c1fcc1.pdf.
base::unlink(full_name)

(full_name <- base::tempfile(pattern="instruments-all-record-1-", fileext = ".pdf"))
#> [1] "/var/folders/0w/4z5l9vds32nbkz7l22n8j6s80000gn/T//Rtmp5sBVRN/instruments-all-record-1-11651fb8f3b4.pdf"
result_2   <- REDCapR::redcap_instrument_download(
  record        = 5,
  file_name     = full_name,
  redcap_uri    = uri,
  token         = token
)
#> Preparing to download the file `/var/folders/0w/4z5l9vds32nbkz7l22n8j6s80000gn/T//Rtmp5sBVRN/instruments-all-record-1-11651fb8f3b4.pdf`.
#> text/html; charset=UTF-8 successfully downloaded in 0.2 seconds, and saved as /var/folders/0w/4z5l9vds32nbkz7l22n8j6s80000gn/T//Rtmp5sBVRN/instruments-all-record-1-11651fb8f3b4.pdf.
base::unlink(full_name)
(full_name <- base::tempfile(pattern="instrument-1-record-1-", fileext=".pdf"))
#> [1] "/var/folders/0w/4z5l9vds32nbkz7l22n8j6s80000gn/T//Rtmp5sBVRN/instrument-1-record-1-11652787beb1.pdf"
result_3   <- REDCapR::redcap_instrument_download(
  record        = 5,
  instrument    = "health",
  file_name     = full_name,
  redcap_uri    = uri,
  token         = token
)
#> Preparing to download the file `/var/folders/0w/4z5l9vds32nbkz7l22n8j6s80000gn/T//Rtmp5sBVRN/instrument-1-record-1-11652787beb1.pdf`.
#> text/html; charset=UTF-8 successfully downloaded in 0.2 seconds, and saved as /var/folders/0w/4z5l9vds32nbkz7l22n8j6s80000gn/T//Rtmp5sBVRN/instrument-1-record-1-11652787beb1.pdf.
base::unlink(full_name)
# }