Input data sets are R
data frames that can include columns
with any valid name, however columns with selected names are
treated specially by mrgsolve
and incorporated into the
simulation.
ID
specifies the subject ID and is required for every
input data set.
When columns have the same name as parameters ($PARAM
in
the model specification file), the values in those columns will
be used to update the corresponding parameter as the simulation
progresses.
Input data set may include the following columns related to
PK dosing events: time
, cmt
, amt
, rate
,
ii
, addl
, ss
. time
and cmt
(and ID
) are required columns in the input data set.
time
is the observation or event time, cmt
is the compartment number (see init
), amt
is the dosing amount, rate
is the infusion rate,
ii
is the dosing interval, addl
specifies
additional doses to administer, and ss
is a flag
for steady state dosing. These column names operate
similarly to other non-linear mixed effects modeling
software. Upper case PK dosing column names including
TIME
, CMT
, AMT
, RATE
, II
,
ADDL
, SS
are also recognized. However, an
error will be generated if a mix of upper case and lower
case columns are found.
Only numeric data can be brought in to the problem.
Any non-numeric data columns will be dropped with warning.
See exdatasets
for different example data sets.