checkFormat: Check database format

In PascalCrepey/HospitalNetwork: Building Networks of Hospitals Through Patients Transfers

Check database format

Description

Function that performs various generic checks to ensure that the database has the correct format

Usage

checkFormat(report, convertDates = FALSE, dateFormat = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

report	(list). A list containing the base and in which will be stored reporting variables. The base is a patient discharge database, in the form of a data.table. The data.table should have at least the following columns: sID: subjectID (character) fID: facilityID (character) Adate: admission date (POSIXct, but character can be converted to POSIXct) Ddate: discharge date (POSIXct, but character can be converted to POSIXct)
convertDates	(boolean) TRUE/FALSE: whether the dates should converted. Default is TRUE.
dateFormat	(boolean) The format of date as a character string (e.g. %y%m%d for 20190524, or %d-%m-%y for 24-05-2019).
verbose	(boolean) print diagnostic messages. Default is FALSE.

Value

Returns either an error message, or the database (modified if need be).

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