Possible to add support for dplyr select helper verbs for define_extract_cps?

[samrkuhn]

Hi,

When I am defining an API extract with many samples (i.e. n >= 20), would it be possible to add support for dplyr select helper verbs? Something like this -

define_extract_cps(
  samples = select(starts_with("2022"))
)

[robe2037]

@samrkuhn Thanks for the suggestion!

Since the CPS metadata API has not been fully developed, we aren't able to provide this type of querying (yet!). However, when metadata does become available by API, we do intend to add functionality to make it easier to integrate metadata queries with extract definitions.

Until we have a better sense of the endpoints/other details for the metadata API, we won't know for sure how this will look (e.g. you may have to retrieve + filter metadata with a separate function and pass these values to your extract definition), but it's on our to-do list.