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REDCapExporter 0.3.5 (2026-06-18)

The primary objective of these patches is to make the package more robust to not having suggested packages available.

Remove the unused magrittr from suggested dependencies.
Remove fs from suggested dependencies. Examples and vignettes now use base R's list.files() instead of fs::dir_tree().
Use roxygen2::roxygenize() instead of devtools::document() when documenting generated data packages.
Show base R CMD build in the generated package vignette example instead of devtools::build().
Add roxygen2 and the roxygen2 configuration field to generated data package DESCRIPTION files so documentation tooling is declared explicitly.
Add the BugReports URL to DESCRIPTION.

Check generated data package DESCRIPTION files for the expected roxygen2 metadata.

Gate devtools::document() in build_r_data_package() when devtools is not available.

Update test-build_r_pkg.R to be robust to platform.
Update test-build_r_pkg.R expectations based on devtools availability.
Constrain keyring tests to a temporary keyring directory.
Avoid building/installing a generated package inside the vignette during checks.
Update test-export to use the REDCapR public dev-2 test endpoint/token and skip on curl-related failures.

The API used for testing is no longer working. The test has been removed from this version of the package so the package can stay on CRAN while a better solution is found. (#18)

Fix issue in test-export.R - it could/would fail if there was a time out related to CURL. Fix looks for an error and if the error is curl related the testing is skipped. Other errors will still be thrown.

archer01_csv <- export_core(uri = 'https://bbmc.ouhsc.edu/redcap/api/', token = '9A81268476645C4E5F03428B8AC3AA7B') Getting Project Info Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(uri, handle = h) : Timeout was reached [bbmc.ouhsc.edu]: Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds Calls: export_core ... export_content -> -> raise_libcurl_error Execution halted

modify code in R/as.R to not use the |> operator so that the package code has more backward compatibility.

updated source code to address deprecated roxygen2 documentation tags
Extend the col_types to use lubridate arguments for working with dates and datetimes
Add a vignette about formatting
remove as.data.table only return data.frames. End users can then coerce the data.frame to a tibble or data.table if they prefer.
add additional columns to the example data to test and demonstrate the use of the package

improved the internal read_text function's checking of the Content-Type from the raw data.
formatting of data from json
col_type handling of checkboxes
col_type correctly sets character instead of factor for "completed" fields

made format_record a S3 generic.
- Allows for a similar API as prior version
  - USER VISIBLE CHANGE the functional argument record no longer exists, use the generic argument x
- Allows for easier use by taking in a rcer_rccore object so the metadata or the col_type does not need to be explicitly defined.

The dependence on the RCurl package resulted in SSL errors on Windows. The package no longer imports RCurl and uses curl instead. (#16)

support formatting for check boxes (integer columns in record) (#12)
omit description text fields form auto formatting (#10)
refactoring the format_record so columns not explicitly defined in the col_type are returned. Prior version would have omitted the columns. This also allows for redcap_* columns to pass through (#9)
Add helper functions for building and working with a keyring for storage and access to API tokens (#14)
Support more, if not all, column types (#15)

Initial release.