Re: [R] challenging data merging/joining problem

On 2020-07-05 14:50 -0400, Christopher W. Ryan wrote: > I've been conducting relatively simple > COVID-19 surveillance for our jurisdiction. Dear Christopher, As I am a bit unfamiliar when it comes to the tidyverse, I wrote these lines using regular data.frames: ### Convert to

Re: [R] challenging data merging/joining problem

*Just my opinion* : --> feel free to disregard I would suggest that you stop thinking in terms of tidyverse functionality and instead think of what kind of data structure you need for your ongoing work and where you will source data to populate that structure both now -- including legacy data --

[R] challenging data merging/joining problem

I've been conducting relatively simple COVID-19 surveillance for our jurisdiction. We get data on lab test results automatically, and then interview patients to obtain other information, like clinical details. We had been recording all data in our long-time data system (call it dataSystemA). But