mergeDiffWithData {clinUtils}

Merge the 'diff.data' object from compareDiff with the original newData or oldData.

Description

The newData/oldData are merged with diffData based on the columns of diffData excepted 'Comparison type' and 'Version'.

Usage

mergeDiffWithData(diffData, newData, oldData)

Arguments

diffData

Object of class 'diff.data' containing differences between datasets, as returned by the compareDiff function.

newData

data.frame object representing the new data

oldData

data.frame object representing the old data

Value

The newData or oldData (as a data frame object) with the extra column 'Comparison type' specifying the type of change, either:

• 'Change': record present in both dataset based on the reference variables, but with changes in the changeable variables

• 'Addition': records present in new but not in old data

• 'Removal': records present in old but not in new data

• 'Identical': records identical in the old and new datasets (on both the reference and changeable variables)