elliottmess/koboapi

Link kobotoolbox-based API with R.

koboapi's Issues

Security risk : Password hard coded in functions

A few functions have the password as a parameter, which increases the risk of sharing password along with code/script.
A solution has to be found to remove those hard coded passwords, while limiting the number of times the password is asked for with readline.

download_data issue

Hi Elliot,

This package is great! I'm not sure if you are still working on it at the moment, but I could not get a bunch of functions to work properly. The issues I found were usually due to object and function names being overwritten. I have fixed the package to work for my needs in my forked repo. It now works for the simple cases of downloading all the forms in a kobo account into a table, downloading a kobo dataset, and downloading the XLSForm form. The changes I made may have broken the some of the stuff for more complex use-cases where you want to deal with languages differently or extract the repeat groups into a nested list column. Therefore, it may not make sense for me to submit a pull request yet. However, let me know your thoughts. Thanks!

I also added a standardize_form function in kobo_utils to be used after download_form. It just puts the columns back to how they would have been when the form was downloaded (just fixes list_name in survey dataframe). I made the function separate because I didn't want to change columns that might be crucial for other functionality. In this standard format kobold functions (seths package) can be used which are quite convenient. If making this standardization can be done inside the download_form function without breaking other processes that would be simpler.

"object 'label' not found" error when calling functions with old_id

When calling download_data and download_form (but probably with other functions too) with an "old_id" in the formid argument, the following errors shows:

 Error: Problem with `mutate()` input `label`.
x object 'label' not found
i Input `label` is `purrr::map(label, setNames, languages_labels)`.

Problem to download data

When I try to download my data i found this problem in this function:

download_data : function (formid, user, pwd, api = "https://kobo.humanitarianresponse.info", seperator = "\/")
download_data("841767", "xxxxx", "xxxxx", api = "https://kobo.humanitarianresponse.info", seperator = "\/")

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Error in new2old_id(formid, download_forms_all) :
all_forms must be a dataframe

Api definition on the kobo_data function

When the forms are on koobotoolbox.org, the API is :kc.kobotoolbox.org, meaning that the variable storing the api must be modified.

api_old <- gsub("kobo", "kc", api)

should be replaced by:

api_old <- gsub("kf", "kc", api)

kobo_data(): Downloading data with repeat questions

When data with repeat questions are downloaded, an error is thrown because for the forward slash included in the column names by the kobotoolbox API.
Example:
"Description_Assessment/Key_2[1]/Key_6"