Demonstration and Testing

Follow these steps to demonstrate the package’s capabilities:

  • Install the redcapfiller package.
    • install.packages("remotes") # Run this line if the ‘remotes’ package isn’t installed already.
    • remotes::install_github("ctsit/redcapfiller")
  • Select a classic REDCap project of your choosing. For a very basic project that exercises all the field types and text validation types, see REDCapR’s validation-types-1 project.xml.
  • Make yourself an API token in that project.
  • Copy the API token redcap_uri, pid, and other details into a credentials.csv that conforms to the specs of REDCapR::create_credential_local().
  • Copy example.env to your R Project directory and name it .env.
  • Adjust the value of path_credential in .env setting it to the path to your credentials.csv created above.
  • Adjust the value of filler_demo_pid in .env to match the project ID of the project you are testing with.
  • Open the R project.
  • Copy proof_of_concept.R into the project directory.
  • Open proof_of_concept.R.
  • Start reading/running the code in proof_of_concept.R.