new_event: Add events to the queue for a patient

In WARDEN: Workflows for Health Technology Assessments in R using Discrete EveNts

Add events to the queue for a patient

Description

Adds one or more events for a given patient to the queue.

Usage

new_event(events, ptr, patient_id)

Arguments

events	A named numeric vector. Names are event types, values are event times. It can also handle lists instead of named vectors (at a small computational cost).
ptr	The event queue pointer. Defaults to cur_evtlist.
patient_id	The patient ID. Defaults to i.

Details

The functions to add/modify events/inputs use named vectors or lists. Whenever several inputs/events are added or modified, it's recommended to group them within one function, as it reduces the computation cost. So rather than use two new_event with a list of one element, it's better to group them into a single new_event with a list of two elements.

While multiple events can be added, they must be named differently. If the same event is added multiple times at once, only the last occurrence will be kept (only one event per event type in the queue of events yet to occur). If an event occurs, then a new one with the same name can be set.

This function is intended to be used only within the add_reactevt function in its input parameter and should not be run elsewhere or it will return an error.

Value

NULL (invisible). Modifies the queue in-place.

Examples

add_reactevt(name_evt = "idfs",input = {new_event(c("ae"=5))})

WARDEN documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 7:45 p.m.