BioThermR (version 0.1.0)

merge_clinical_data: Merge Thermal Stats with Clinical Data

Description

Merges the compiled thermal statistics with an external clinical dataset based on filenames/IDs. Automatically handles column name conflicts (removes .x/.y suffixes).

Usage

merge_clinical_data(
  thermal_df,
  clinical_df,
  thermal_id = "Filename",
  clinical_id = "Filename",
  clean_ids = TRUE
)

Value

A merged data frame.

Arguments

thermal_df

Data frame. The output from compile_batch_stats().

clinical_df

Data frame. Your external clinical data.

thermal_id

String. Column name in thermal_df to merge on. Default is "Filename".

clinical_id

String. Column name in clinical_df to merge on. Default is "Filename".

clean_ids

Logical. If TRUE, automatically removes file paths and extensions for matching. Default is TRUE.