Plotting special periods and treatment interruptions

[ddediu]

Hi Sam,

unless I am missing something, to make it easier to add special periods to the CMA plot, I was wondering what you think about adding the special_periods part of the compute_event_durations() output:

• the METHOD (even if it means just copying the special.periods.method value or adding its actual values if "custom")
• if you do that, I am not sure I see why the CUSTOM column would still be needed anymore (it would be redundant)
• SPECIAL.DURATION: I don't see it here, but seems to be included in the event_durations part of the output?

Also, are treatment interruptions also included in this special_periods or not? If so, maybe it would be good to somehow mark them as different from other special periods?

The advantage of all this is that I can have all the info packed in a single data.frame that I pass to the plot.CMA() function on top of the the CMA object...

Thanks,
Dan

[Masswear]

Add class "event_durations" to output of compute_event_durations and attribute for carryover.
Consider #85 for plotting.

[ddediu]

Ok +

• one can pass directly a event_durations object to the CMAx() functions, and the created CMA objects are aware of the specific event_durations stuff
• if event_durations was computed with carryover but is used with a CMA that is not aware of carryover, a warnings/error is thrown
• plotting such a CMA object makes use of the event_durations info to show potential special periods etc.