merge_periods: Merge time intervals

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Merge time intervals

Description

Join adjacent or redundant time intervals across ids

Usage

merge_periods(
  df,
  start_time,
  end_time,
  ...,
  tolerance = 0,
  units = "minutes",
  simplify = TRUE,
  plots = FALSE
)

Arguments

df	A dataframe
start_time	The unquoted name of the starting time column in df
end_time	The unquoted name of the ending time column in df
...	Optional grouping columns, unquoted
tolerance	A number specifying how far apart start and end times can be to combine.
units	The units for tolerance. One of c('seconds', 'minutes', 'hours', 'days', 'years')
simplify	Should the results be simplified and joined?
plots	Should plots be generated for each group?

Author(s)

Sven Halvorson

Examples

data(periods_data)
merged_periods = merge_periods(
  periods_data,
  start_time = ts_start,
  end_time = ts_end,
  id,
  tolerance = 3,
  units = 'minutes',
  simplify = FALSE,
  plots = TRUE
)

SvenR::ggslideshow(merged_periods$plot)

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