readData: Read in a dataset

In smm52/timeBlocks: Converts Serial Measurement Data into Longitudinal Trajectory of Equally-sized Time Blocks

Read in a dataset

Description

Read in a tab-delimited dataset that also has a description file available with column types.

Usage

readData(fileName, descName = NA, doRemove = TRUE, guessRows = NA)

Arguments

fileName	path to the tab-delimited data file.
descName	path to the description file (optional)
doRemove	removes PATIENT entries that start with !, DSP, TH or CC
guessRow	when no description file is given, how many rows should be used to guess the column type (default: 1000)

Details

The description file is a direct downlad from the BCOS table descritpions

If only the fileName is given, the function behaves like read_tsv from readr

Value

The dataset as a data frame.

Examples

## Not run: 
tutlom <- readData('../data/original/tutlom_20170531.txt','../data/original/desc_tutlom20170531.txt', TRUE)

## End(Not run)

smm52/timeBlocks documentation built on Nov. 27, 2022, 3:54 a.m.