getAttributesTime {psichomics}

R Documentation

Get time values for given columns in a clinical dataset

Description

Get time values for given columns in a clinical dataset

Usage

getAttributesTime(
  clinical,
  event,
  timeStart,
  timeStop = NULL,
  followup = "days_to_last_followup"
)

Arguments

clinical	Data frame: clinical data
event	Character: name of column containing time of the event of interest
timeStart	Character: name of column containing starting time of the interval or follow up time
timeStop	Character: name of column containing ending time of the interval (only relevant for interval censoring)
followup	Character: name of column containing follow up time

Value

Data frame containing the time for the given columns

See Also

Other functions to analyse survival: assignValuePerSubject(), labelBasedOnCutoff(), optimalSurvivalCutoff(), plotSurvivalCurves(), plotSurvivalPvaluesByCutoff(), processSurvTerms(), survdiffTerms(), survfit.survTerms(), testSurvival()

Examples

df <- data.frame(followup=c(200, 300, 400), death=c(NA, 300, NA))
rownames(df) <- paste("subject", 1:3)
getAttributesTime(df, event="death", timeStart="death", followup="followup")

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