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The guiding principle behind duawranglr is to make it easier fororganizations to share data that contain protected elements and/orpersonally identifiable information (PII) with researchers. There are twokey problems this package attempts to solve:

1. Data owners and reseachers may wish to collaborate on multipleprojects, each with a different level of data security required;executing a unique data usage agreement (DUA) for each project canbe time consuming and inefficient.
2. Administrators tasked with approving data requests do not alwayshave the time or technical proficiency to closely review the codethat reads, subsets, filters, and deidentifies data files accordingto a DUA.

This package offers a set of functions to help users create shareabledata sets from raw data files that contain protected elements. Relyingon master crosswalk files that list restricted variables, packagefunctions warn users about possible violations of data usage agreementand prevent writing protected elements.

Install the latest released version from CRAN with

install.packages("duawranglr")

Install the latest development version from Github with

devtools::install_github("btskinner/duawranglr")

See vignettes ordocumentation sitefor package motivation and an example use case.