REDCap + R: How to Do All the Things!

A gentle introduction to using R with REDCap databases using the REDCapR and REDCapTidieR packages.
Authors
Affiliations

Stephan Kadauke

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Will Beasley

Oklahoma University

Welcome!

This is the website for the REDCapCon Deep Dive REDCap + R: How to Do All the Things!

You’ll learn about Quarto, a framework for reproducible data science, and how to use REDCap with R to download projects, perform data analysis and visualization, and how to write data back to REDCap.

For the best experience, we suggest the following (none of the below are absolutely necessary!):

  • If available to you, use two monitors (or another two-screen setup such as a laptop and a tablet or two laptops).
  • We suggest you use a recent version of macOS or Windows - we have had issues with Linux.
  • We highly recommend you use the Google Chrome browser to access the Posit Cloud training environment.

Pre-work

Essential

  • Install the latest version of Google Chrome.
  • We will use Posit Cloud as a backup training environment. Please sign up for a free account here.

Optional

Going through the course

We have recorded the session and made it available on YouTube.

We have created an online training environment with interactive exercises that are referenced in the YouTube recording. The training environment can be accessed here.

The entire course should take about 2 hours to complete.

After the course

If you would like to practice with the materials from the course, go to the GitHub repository, and click the green button labeled “Code” to download the repository as a .ZIP file.

To install all the packages we used in the training environment, open RStudio and run the following command in the Console:

install.packages(c(
  "tidyverse",
  "REDCapR",
  "REDCapTidieR"
))

Resources

License

All of the material in this GitHub repository is copyrighted under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 copyright to make the material easy to reuse. We encourage you to reuse it and adapt it for your own teaching as you like!

Acknowledgments

This course draws from various sources, most notably Garrett Grolemund’s Welcome to the Tidyverse and Greg Wilson’s Teaching Tech Together. This site was built using Quarto.