carry_forward: Carry spreadsheet values forward row-wise or column-wise
In MEDSL/medslcleaner: A MEDSL Package for Cleaning Election Returns

Description Usage Arguments

carry_forward implements row-wise or column-wise last non-missing observation carried forward, in a table of tidy Excel data created by read_xlreturns() or tidyxl::xlsx_cells(). Usually called by as_header(), not directly.

carry_forward(.data, rows = TRUE, cols = TRUE, .by = "row",
  value.name = "value")

carry_right(.data, rows = TRUE, cols = TRUE, value.name = "value")

carry_down(.data, rows = TRUE, cols = TRUE, value.name = "value")

`.data`	A table of tidy spreadsheet data (i.e., with columns `row`, `col`, and `value`).
`rows`	One of: a vector of spreadsheet row indexes; a logical vector with length equal to the row count of dataframe `.data`; or a length-one logical vector (i.e., `TRUE` or `FALSE`) applied to all spreadsheet rows.
`cols`	One of: a vector of spreadsheet column indexes; a logical vector with length equal to the column count of dataframe `.data`; or a length-one logical vector (i.e., `TRUE` or `FALSE`) applied to all spreadsheet columns
`.by`	Carry forward by `"row"` or by `"col"`.
`value.name`	Column in `.data` to operate on.