duawranglr

The guiding principle behind duawranglr is to make it easier for organizations to share data that contain protected elements and/or personally identifiable information (PII) with researchers. There are two key problems this package attempts to solve:

Data owners and reseachers may wish to collaborate on multiple projects, each with a different level of data security required; executing a unique data usage agreement (DUA) for each project can be time consuming and inefficient.
Administrators tasked with approving data requests do not always have the time or technical proficiency to closely review the code that reads, subsets, filters, and deidentifies data files according to a DUA.

This package offers a set of functions to help users create shareable data sets from raw data files that contain protected elements. Relying on master crosswalk files that list restricted variables, package functions warn users about possible violations of data usage agreement and prevent writing protected elements.

Installation

Install the latest released version from CRAN with

install.packages("duawranglr")

Install the latest development version from Github with

devtools::install_github("btskinner/duawranglr")

Usage

See vignettes or documentation site for package motivation and an example use case.