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ukbwranglr

Overview

The goal of ukbwranglr is to facilitate analysing UK Biobank data, including:

  1. Reading a selection of UK Biobank variables into R.
  2. Summarising repeated continuous variable measurements.1
  3. Extracting phenotypic outcomes of interest from clinical events data.2

Installation

You can install the development version of ukbwranglr with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rmgpanw/ukbwranglr")

Basic workflow

The basic workflow is as follows:

  1. Create a data dictionary for your main UK Biobank dataset with make_data_dict().
  2. Read selected variables into R with read_ukb().
  3. Summarise continuous variables with summarise_numerical_variables().
  4. Tidy clinical events data with tidy_clinical_events() or make_clinical_events_db(), and extract outcomes of interest with extract_phenotypes().
  5. Analyse.

Please see vignette('ukbwranglr') for further details.