This class of object represents a database, as the result of an EDCimport reading function.
It has its own print()
method.
Functions returning edc_database
objects
As per now, reading functions are: read_trialmaster()
, read_all_sas()
, read_all_xpt()
, and read_all_csv()
.
Structure
While it is not usually usefull to query them, an edc_database
object is a named list containing:
all the datasets from the source files
datetime_extraction
anddate_extraction
the inferred date of data extraction.lookup
a temporary copy of the lookup table