Allow user to turn on/off the "within instrument matches" behaviour

[woodthom2]

Description

The web UI has an option to turn this on/off

but not yet available in Python or R

Rationale

Users have requested this.

See R issue harmonydata/harmony_r#2

[oelmady]

Hi I'm wondering if I could take a look at this as my first open source contribution?

[woodthom2]

Hi Omar. Yes we would be very glad to have your contribution here as the R library needs someone to bring it to the same level as Python. Basically it's related to the whole idea of returning a dataframe of matches (a Crosswalk table) instead of just a matrix. In the https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony_examples repo you can see some real life examples of how R users are having to use the tool and at the moment there is a lot of boilerplate code. At present Harmony R would be especially hard for a user to use who doesn't do coding as part of their every day job but just has intermediate knowledge of R... and that would be the profile of some researchers. So in short yes please go ahead! And if you see any ways to improve the R library overall (e.g.the way you import questions is already very clunky) then please feel free to do it. Thanks! If you would like a chat, I am Thomas Wood, and you can find me on the project Discord server https://discord.gg/harmonydata . Thanks and really glad to have you on board!

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On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, 16:48 Omar Elmady, ***@***.***> wrote: Hi I'm wondering if I could take a look at this as my first open source contribution? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#60 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADUBTVPX4VOYEFVFBWW6ZKD2F375ZAVCNFSM6AAAAABQZ6HVA2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDKNBWGEZTIMBVGU> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[oelmady]

Hi Thomas I have some coursework in R so I’d be happy to give it a try. I have a background in psychology so I’m interested in this topic especially as I have an interest in AI. I think this may turn out to be a good winter break project, just need some time to look and see if it’s a good fit. If I make some progress I’ll be in contact soon! On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 11:57 AM Thomas Wood ***@***.***> wrote:

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Hi Omar. Yes we would be very glad to have your contribution here as the R library needs someone to bring it to the same level as Python. Basically it's related to the whole idea of returning a dataframe of matches (a Crosswalk table) instead of just a matrix. In the https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony_examples repo you can see some real life examples of how R users are having to use the tool and at the moment there is a lot of boilerplate code. At present Harmony R would be especially hard for a user to use who doesn't do coding as part of their every day job but just has intermediate knowledge of R... and that would be the profile of some researchers. So in short yes please go ahead! And if you see any ways to improve the R library overall (e.g.the way you import questions is already very clunky) then please feel free to do it. Thanks! If you would like a chat, I am Thomas Wood, and you can find me on the project Discord server https://discord.gg/harmonydata . Thanks and really glad to have you on board! On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, 16:48 Omar Elmady, ***@***.***> wrote: > Hi I'm wondering if I could take a look at this as my first open source > contribution? > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > < #60 (comment)>, > or unsubscribe > < https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADUBTVPX4VOYEFVFBWW6ZKD2F375ZAVCNFSM6AAAAABQZ6HVA2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDKNBWGEZTIMBVGU> > . > You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: > ***@***.***> > — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#60 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AXQPC5XJ7LDTIGGCWY7HC3D2F4A55AVCNFSM6AAAAABQZ6HVA2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDKNBWGE2TIMBTGM> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[woodthom2]

Hi Omar sorry I had only seen the notification of your comment come in through my email instead of viewing directly on Github, and I thought it was an R issue not a Python issue, I just noticed today that your comment was within the Python issue board and not the R issue board - hence why my first reply was all about R instead of Python. Anyway yes feel free to work on the Python and/or the R packages, help is needed on both but especially on R. I've got some more example notebooks in the examples repo that just came in today so you can see how real users are using it: https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony_examples