curly quotes and other miscreant characters

[wibeasley]

@nutterb, just a heads up. I've had two recent issues created that ended up being caused by curly quotes in the data dictionary. The solution involved being more explicit with the text & encoding passed to httr::content().

I know you use httr::POST() instead (and I like that there are two approaches available to the public) and I don't know if there's an analog for your approach. Maybe httr::POST() avoids it entirely.

If you start seeing things like these two REDCapR issues, it may be worth investigating. It may address redcapAPI's nutterb/redcapAPI#126 & nutterb/redcapAPI#129?

• redcap_metadata_read, "object 'ds' not found"  OuhscBbmc/REDCapR#269
• REDCapR: redcap_read function gives error in R version 3.6.1 and not 3.5.3  OuhscBbmc/REDCapR#272

[nutterb]

I'll keep an eye out for it, but I may be able to avoid the problem. redcapAPI has an option to use iconv to obliterate non ASCII characters. It's a little heavy handed, but made for a simple and quick solution

[nutterb]

Kind of similar to vubiostat#24, but not HTML

[nutterb]

redcap 2.7.0 (vubiostat#70) add exportRecordsTyped, which is what is being recommended over exportRecords.

Please see https://github.com/vubiostat/redcapAPI

We expect this to have better handling for UNICODE.