Convert dates stored as strings to Date variables — redcap_prep_dates • redcaptools

Converts the string values returned from REDCap to Dates. This function also applies labels to the variable itself, based on the option label.

Usage

redcap_prep_dates(data, metadata, replace = FALSE, append = "_date")

redcap_prep_datetimes(
  data,
  metadata,
  replace = FALSE,
  append = "_datetime",
  ...
)

Arguments

data: the data.frame to modify
metadata: metadata/datadictionary
replace: whether to overwrite the existing data .
append: text to append to the variable name if not overwriting
...: options passed to/from other methods

Value

input data.frame with additional date variables/variables converted to dates.

Functions

redcap_prep_datetimes(): input data.frame with date-time variables reformated to POSIX