Import records into a REDCap project
Usage
import_records(
conn,
data,
type = c("flat", "eav"),
overwrite = "normal",
return = "count"
)Arguments
- conn
A REDCap API connection object (created with
rconn)- data
A data.frame containing record data to import into REDCap
- type
One of:
"flat": data in wide-form with one record per row (default)
"eav": data in long-form with one row per participant/instance/field (data should have columns "record", "field_name", and "value", and if longitudinal then also "redcap_event_name" and "redcap_repeat_instance")
- overwrite
Overwrite behaviour. Either "normal" to prevent missing values from overwriting data, or "overwrite" to allow data to be overwritten with missing values. Defaults to "normal".
- return
What to return. Use "count" to return a count of imported records, "ids" to return a vector of the IDs that were imported, or "nothing" to return nothing. Defaults to "count".