Methods to handle date(times)s in secuTrial exports — dates

Converts dates and datetime variables to Date or POSIXct class, as appropriate.

dates_secuTrial(object, ...)

# S3 method for secuTrialdata
dates_secuTrial(object, ...)

Arguments

object: secuTrialdata object
...: further parameters

Value

same as the original object with date variables converted to Dates.

Details

New variables are created appended with .date or .datetime. This is a safety mechanism in case NAs are inadvertently introduced.

Examples

# prepare path to example export
export_location <- system.file("extdata", "sT_exports", "lnames",
                               "s_export_CSV-xls_CTU05_long_ref_miss_en_utf8.zip",
                               package = "secuTrialR")
# load all export data
sT_export <- read_secuTrial_raw(data_dir = export_location)
# prepare dates
sT_export_dates <- dates_secuTrial(sT_export)

# show parsed datetime example
sT_export_dates$ctu05baseline$hiv_date.datetime[1]
#> [1] "2019-03-05 23:56:00 UTC"
# [1] "2019-03-05 23:56:00 CET"
# show parsed date example
sT_export_dates$ctu05baseline$paracetamol_start.date[1]
#> [1] "2019-03-05"
# [1] "2019-03-05"