REDCapR (version 1.0.0)

redcap_version: Determine version of REDCap instance

Description

This function uses REDCap's API to query its version.

Usage

redcap_version(redcap_uri, token, verbose = TRUE, config_options = NULL)

Value

a utils::packageDescription

Arguments

redcap_uri

The URI (uniform resource identifier) of the REDCap project. Required.

token

The user-specific string that serves as the password for a project. Required.

verbose

A boolean value indicating if messages should be printed to the R console during the operation. The verbose output might contain sensitive information (e.g. PHI), so turn this off if the output might be visible somewhere public. Optional.

config_options

A list of options to pass to POST method in the httr package. See the details below. Optional.

Details

If the API call is unsuccessful, a value of base::package_version("0.0.0") will be returned. This ensures that a the function will always return an object of class base::numeric_version. It guarantees the value can always be used in utils::compareVersion().

Examples

uri      <- "https://bbmc.ouhsc.edu/redcap/api/"
token    <- "9A81268476645C4E5F03428B8AC3AA7B"
REDCapR::redcap_version(redcap_uri = uri, token = token)