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Harmony R released!

We have developed the R package for Harmony and open sourced it. To get started, you need R installed on your system.

Click here to try an example in Google Colab.

Here’s a Jupyter Notebook with an example using Harmony in R

Installing R library

We are currently submitting the R library to CRAN.

In the meantime, you can install the development version of harmonydata from GitHub (documentation in the README file):

You also need devtools which will already be there if you are using R Studio. If not, you can install devtools with the following command in the R console:

install.packages("devtools") # If you don't have devtools installed already.

Next, to install Harmony, run:

library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("harmonydata/harmony_r")

Parsing a raw file into an Instrument

Let’s import Harmony and harmonise an instrument.

If you want to read in a raw (unstructured) PDF or Excel file, you can do this via a POST request to the REST API. This will convert the file into an Instrument object in JSON.It returns the instrument as a list.

library(harmonydata)
instrument = load_instruments_from_file(path = "examples/GAD-7.pdf")
names(instrument[[1]])
#>  [1] "file_id"         "instrument_id"   "instrument_name" "file_name"      
#>  [5] "file_type"       "file_section"    "study"           "sweep"          
#>  [9] "metadata"        "language"        "questions"

You can also input a url containing the questionnaire.

instrument_2 = load_instruments_from_file("https://medfam.umontreal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/GAD-7-fran%C3%A7ais.pdf") 
names(instrument_2[[1]])
#>  [1] "file_id"         "instrument_id"   "instrument_name" "file_name"      
#>  [5] "file_type"       "file_section"    "study"           "sweep"          
#>  [9] "metadata"        "language"        "questions"

Matching instruments

You can get a list containing the results of the match.Here we can see a list of similarity score for each question comapred to all the other questions in th other questionaire.

instruments = append(instrument, instrument_2)
match = match_instruments(instruments)
names(match)
#> [1] "questions"        "matches"          "query_similarity"

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