Basic Usage
Depending on your role you have different options to interact with MOLGENIS Armadillo.
A data manager will typically interact with Armadillo in multiple ways:
- Using the Armadillo User Interface (UI)
- Creating views/subsets in the Armadillo User Interface (UI)
- Using a R client MolgenisArmadillo
- Using dsUpload (R) to upload data with the help of predefined harmonised data dictionaries (ds-dictionaries).
Control
To ease some of the system administrator's and datamanagers responsibilites, datamanagers can access the Armadillo Control page in the User Interface where they can:
- Configure an Authentication server
- Update/restart Armadillo
A System operator configures the armadillo server. This person makes sure everything is running correctly. They can:
- Configure an Authentication server
- Update/restart Armadillo
A researcher will connect to a Armadillo server with a R client DSMolgenisArmadillo, this client allows for execution of DataSHIELD functions. Depending on the way your cohort has been setup you might use the R client through the Central Analysis server (CAS). In both cases the researcher has installed R and Rstudio to edit and run their analysis.
A developer can use DataSHIELD Lite (DSLite) as a serverless DataSHIELD Interface (DSI) implementation which purpose is to mimic the behavior of a distant (virtualized or barebone) data repository server like Armadillo or Opal.