Hello
I need help with comparing 2 columns, both of witch consists of dates.
My dataset consists of 18 patients, all of witch have a medication-date, but only some of them are dead.
What I want to do is to compare the 2 dates (death-date vs medication-date) for the dead patients, and if the medication-date is greater than (>) death-date, then the medication-date has to be changed to be the same date as the deathdate.
- For those where medication-date is lesser than or same as (<=) death-date, nothing has to be done.
- For those with no death-date (NA, ie still alive), nothing has to bed done.
I have tried "ifelse", but the result is not correct!
the dput of my dataset is as follows:
structure(list(id= c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18), death = structure(c(NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,16648,172767,17481), class = "Date"), medication = structure(c(17116,17627,17767,17622,17764,17797,17093,17150,17669,17734,17729,17876,18001,17830,17797,15833,17328,17573), class= "Date")), sorted="id", class= c("data.table", "data.frame"), row.names = c(NA, -18L), .internal.selfref = <pointer: 0x00000000001f1ef0>)
Would appreciate if anyone can help