PatientProfiles (version 1.5.0)

addAge: Compute the age of the individuals at a certain date

Description

Compute the age of the individuals at a certain date

Usage

addAge(
  x,
  indexDate = "cohort_start_date",
  ageName = "age",
  ageGroup = NULL,
  ageMissingMonth = 1,
  ageMissingDay = 1,
  ageImposeMonth = FALSE,
  ageImposeDay = FALSE,
  ageUnit = "years",
  missingAgeGroupValue = "None",
  name = NULL
)

Value

tibble with the age column added.

Arguments

x

Table with individuals in the cdm.

indexDate

Variable in x that contains the date to compute the demographics characteristics.

ageName

Age variable name.

ageGroup

if not NULL, a list of ageGroup vectors.

ageMissingMonth

Month of the year assigned to individuals with missing month of birth.

ageMissingDay

day of the month assigned to individuals with missing day of birth.

ageImposeMonth

TRUE or FALSE. Whether the month of the date of birth will be considered as missing for all the individuals.

ageImposeDay

TRUE or FALSE. Whether the day of the date of birth will be considered as missing for all the individuals.

ageUnit

Unit for age it can either be 'years', 'months' or 'days'.

missingAgeGroupValue

Value to include if missing age.

name

Name of the new table, if NULL a temporary table is returned.

Examples

# \donttest{
library(PatientProfiles)

cdm <- mockPatientProfiles(source = "duckdb")

cdm$cohort1 |>
  addAge()

# }