mergePeriods: Merge dispensations so that the implied treatment periods are...

In deepchocolate/lega: Longitudinal Exposure Generation and Analysis.

Description

Merge dispensations so that the implied treatment periods are not overlapping.

Usage

mergePeriods(data, dates, doses, cumulative = F)

Arguments

data	The data frame.
dates	The column name containing the dates of treatment initiations.
doses	The column name containing the treatment length.
cumilative	Indicate swhether the days in overlapping treatment periods should accumulate.

Details

Given data with a column of dates ("date") as a date variable, a column of quantity dispensed ("quantity"), mergePeriods(data, "date", "quantity", FALSE) returns an aggregation of data where overlapping periods have been merged to a single period.

Value

A data frame without overlapping periods.

Examples

mergePeriods()

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