read.seerstat: Read data from SEER*Stat export files

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also

View source: R/read.seerstat.R

Description

A function to read data and dictionary information from SEER*Stat export files. It should be called to read in group survival data before running function recurrisk.group.

Usage

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read.seerstat(file.dic, file.txt)

Arguments

file.dic

The dictionary file exported from SEER*Stat software with .dic extension which contains the information describing the layout of the export data file.

file.txt

The cause-specific or relative survival data generated from SEER*Stat in .txt format.Note that, if the .txt file is not exported from SEER*Stat but manually converted, the user should make sure the delimiter used in the txt file is the same as the one specified in the dic file - field delimiter option.

Details

This function makes use of function read.SeerStat in R package SEER2R.

Value

A data frame containing SEER*Stat survival data.

See Also

recurrisk.group


RecurRisk documentation built on July 2, 2020, 2:28 a.m.