f.startDate: Calculate start date of a study

In ctrdata: Retrieve and Analyze Clinical Trials in Public Registers

Calculate start date of a study

Description

Trial concept calculated: start of the trial, based on the documented or planned start of recruitment, or on the date of opinion of the competent authority.

Usage

f.startDate(df = NULL)

Arguments

df	data frame such as from dbGetFieldsIntoDf. If 'NULL', prints fields needed in 'df' for calculating this trial concept, which can be used with dbGetFieldsIntoDf.

Value

data frame with columns '_id' and '.startDate', a date.

Examples

# fields needed
f.startDate()

## Not run: 

# apply trial concept when creating data frame
dbc <- nodbi::src_sqlite(
  dbname = system.file("extdata", "demo.sqlite", package = "ctrdata"),
  collection = "my_trials", flags = RSQLite::SQLITE_RO)
trialsDf <- dbGetFieldsIntoDf(
  calculate = "f.startDate",
  con = dbc)

## End(Not run)

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