Factory function for OMOP CDM Helper — ds.omop.helper • dsOMOPHelper

This function creates a new instance of the OMOPCDMHelper class, allowing for interaction with an OMOP CDM database through the DataSHIELD environment.

Usage

ds.omop.helper(
  connections,
  resource,
  symbol,
  personColumns = NULL,
  personFilter = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

connections: Connection object to the DataSHIELD server.
resource: Either an identifier or a named list of identifiers for the specific resource(s) within the DataSHIELD server(s). If a named list, the name of each resource identifier should correspond to the server name in the connections.
symbol: A character string representing the symbol to which the resource will be assigned.
personColumns: Optional; a vector of column names to filter from the person table.
personFilter: Optional; a character string representing another object in the DataSHIELD environment whose person IDs will be used to filter the processed data (this speeds up the processing of the data if not all the person IDs are needed).
...: Additional parameters to be passed to the underlying get method.

Value

A new instance of the OMOPCDMHelper class.