R Observatory: Metrics for REDCapSync version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

REDCapSync

0.1.1

Encapsulated 'REDCap' Projects for Synchronized Data Pipelines

0packages depend

773downloads / year

90.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Brandon RoseFirst published 2026-05-212 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Wraps dozens of 'REDCap' API endpoints into a standardized R6 object. Research Electronic Data Capture ('REDCap') is a survey and database web application software maintained by Vanderbilt University. It has a robust application programming interface (API) utilized by several R packages. 'REDCapSync' uses 'redcapAPI' and 'REDCapR' behind-the-scenes to retrieve all metadata, data, and log details for a project. To minimize unnecessary server calls, the interim 'REDCap' log is analyzed and used to only update necessary records. Furthermore, the user can define custom datasets that save to a directory. Those datasets continue to refresh when projects are synced. Having a secure, standardized, API-efficient, project-agnostic R object for 'REDCap' projects, streamlines downstream use in scripts, functions, and shiny applications.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)

install.packages("REDCapSync", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("thecodingdocs/REDCapSync")

Development version from thecodingdocs/REDCapSync. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-redcapsync

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-REDCapSync

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.46

90.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

15

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-03
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-10
8 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-22
5 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 741 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 71%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

773

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,458 · ~2/day · ~64/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23330 days

73190 days

7731 year

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Also on22 r2u

Repository

GitHub ↗ thecodingdocs/redcapsync

7Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

1,025Commits

3Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 1,025 commits · Last activity 2026-08-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-26 · 22026-07-07 · 7

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thecodingdocs/redcapsync on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (15)

checkmate cli dplyr hoardr lubridate openxlsx2 R6 readxl redcapAPI REDCapR skimrstatsstringrtoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

keyring knitr listviewer rmarkdown spelling testthat (>= 3.3.0)withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Brandon Rose

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Brandon Rose

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Natalie Goulett

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Brandon Rose

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.1Latest
2026-06-09 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-06-09
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-06-04
policy violation Uses '~/Library/Caches/R/REDCapSync' on macOS
0.1.0
2026-05-21
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-21
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 2.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("REDCapSync")

Format

Rose, B., & Goulett, N. (2026). REDCapSync: Encapsulated 'REDCap' Projects for Synchronized Data Pipelines (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.REDCapSync

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for REDCapSync version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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