The collaboratoR package provides functions which help facilitate administration of multi-centre research using R and the REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) application. These functions have been developed and utilised within several collaborative research projects from:
All functions have been developed with the aim of being applicable to a broad range of REDCap projects. Any suggestions for further functions are welcome, however these would need to be aligned with this aim.
If the CollaboratoR package is used within your project, please e-mail the authors here so the list above can be updated. Please also consider citing the package in any resultant publications with the suggested format: "McLean KA, Ots R, Drake TM, Harrison EM. CollaboratoR: Scalable multi-centre research using R and REDCap. 2019. Avaliable at: https://github.com/kamclean/collaborator."
You can install collaborator from github with:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("kamclean/collaborator")It is recommended that this package is used together with tidyverse packages.
Furthermore, functions to faciliate analysis of data collected in R can be found in the finalfit package.
Generating Redcap Summary Data
Redcap User Management: 1. Explore Current Users
Redcap User Management: 2. Automatically Assign User Rights
Generating Missing Data Reports