agdamsbo/REDCapCAST: REDCapCAST 24.12.1

This release attempts to solve problems hosting the shiny_cast app, while also implementing functions to preserve as much meta data as possible from the REDCap database when exporting data.

The hosting on shinyapps.io has given a lot of trouble recently. Modified package structure a little around the shiny_cast(), to accommodate an alternative hosting approach with all package functions included in a script instead of requiring the package.

• NEW: A new option to raw_or_label in read_readcap_tables() has been added: "both". Get raw values with REDCap labels applied as labels. Use as_factor() to format factors with original labels and use the gtsummary package to easily get beautiful tables with original labels from REDCap. Use fct_drop() to drop empty levels.

• NEW: fct_drop() has been added with an extension to forcats::fct_drop(), that works across data.frames. Use as fct_drop().

• CHANGE: the default data export method of easy_redcap() has been changed to use the new labelled data export with read_readcap_tables().