OLTTDataScrape

Script to collect OLTT data for upload to REDCap

GitHub repository

The repository for this script can be found at https://github.com/MichiganADC/OLTTDataScrape.

Running the script in Mac OS X or Linux

1. If necessary, copy the OLTTDataScrape.R file to the directory that contains the OLTT Data directory.

2. Make sure OLTTDataScrape.R is executable by running this command:

   chmod 744 OLTTDataScrape.R

3. Open a terminal.

4. Navigate to the directory containing the OLTTDataScrape.R file.

   a. In Mac OS X, you would currently type this command:

   cd /Volumes/Neuro_Shared/ClinicalCore/OLTT/

5. Run the OLTTDataScrape.R script.

   a. In Mac OS X or Linux, type this command:

   ./OLTTDataScrape.R

Depending on how many OLTT data files there are to scrape, the script may take a few seconds to execute.

Once the script is finished running, there should be a file called oltt_scraped_data.csv. This csv file can be directly uploaded to the UM MAP NACC 3.0 project in REDCap.

Running the script in Windows