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Guess Antibiotic Column

Source: R/guess_ab_col.R
guess_ab_col.Rd

This tries to find a column name in a data set based on information from the antimicrobials data set. Also supports WHONET abbreviations.

Usage

guess_ab_col(x = NULL, search_string = NULL, verbose = FALSE,
  only_sir_columns = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A data.frame.

search_string

A text to search x for, will be checked with as.ab() if this value is not a column in x.

verbose

A logical to indicate whether additional info should be printed.

only_sir_columns

A logical to indicate whether only antibiotic columns must be detected that were transformed to class sir (see as.sir()) on beforehand (default is FALSE).

Value

A column name of x, or NULL when no result is found.

Details

You can look for an antibiotic (trade) name or abbreviation and it will search x and the antimicrobials data set for any column containing a name or code of that antibiotic.

Examples

df <- data.frame(
  amox = "S",
  tetr = "R"
)

guess_ab_col(df, "amoxicillin")
#> [1] "amox"
guess_ab_col(df, "J01AA07") # ATC code of tetracycline
#> [1] "tetr"

guess_ab_col(df, "J01AA07", verbose = TRUE)
#> Auto-guessing columns suitable for analysis
#> ...
#>  OK.
#> ℹ Using column 'amox' as input for AMX (amoxicillin).
#> ℹ Using column 'tetr' as input for TCY (tetracycline).
#> ℹ Using column 'tetr' as input for J01AA07 (tetracycline).
#> [1] "tetr"

# WHONET codes
df <- data.frame(
  AMP_ND10 = "R",
  AMC_ED20 = "S"
)
guess_ab_col(df, "ampicillin")
#> [1] "AMP_ND10"
guess_ab_col(df, "J01CR02")
#> [1] "AMC_ED20"
guess_ab_col(df, "augmentin")
#> [1] "AMC_ED20"