An internal function which construct short data format from a given long
make.short.format(
x,
col.id = 1,
col.status = 2,
col.t1 = 3,
col.t2 = 4,
col.cov = 5
)
column index(es) in the provided dataset
Dataset
Column ID index
Column status index
Column t1 index
Column t2 index
Column covariates indices