The goal of typeconv is to provide a consistent API for converting
clinical data package variables back to their native types
(e.g. character, factor, numeric, Date). Our deidentified, processed,
clinical data are stored as data objects in R packages, where the class
of each variable is the name of the R package. The main function of
typeconv is to_native_type(), and allows for the conversion of
variables back to native types.
You can install the development version of typeconv like so:
remotes::install_github("TalhoukLab/typeconv")This is a basic example of type conversion for the caEndometrial
package:
library(typeconv)
data("emdb.ca", package = "caEndometrial")
dat <- to_native_type(emdb.ca)