library(survival) aeq <- function(x, y, ...) all.equal(as.vector(x), as.vector(y), ...) # dummy data 1, simple survival data1 <- data.frame(id=c(1,2,2,2,3,4), time=c(10, 20, 25, 30, 30, 10), status=factor(c(0,0,1,1, 2,3))) fit1 <- survcheck(Surv(time, status) ~ 1, data1, id=id) aeq(fit1$flag, c(2,0,0,0,0)) aeq(fit1$overlap$row, 3:4) aeq(fit1$overlap$id, 2) aeq(fit1$transitions[1,], c(2,1,1,1)) # dummy data 2, no initial values, start stop data # A: (0, 10, 0), (10, 20, 1), (20, 30, 2) # no issues # B: (0, 20, 1), (15, 24, 2), (25,26, 0) # C: (10,13, 1), (15, 18, 0), (18,25,3) data2 <- data.frame(id=rep(LETTERS[1:3], each=3), t1 = c(0, 10, 20, 0, 15,25, 10, 15, 18), t2 = c(10, 20,30, 20, 24, 26, 13, 18, 25), status= factor(c(0, 1, 2, 1,2, 0, 1, 0, 3)), x = c(1:5, NA, 7:9), stringsAsFactors = FALSE) fit2 <- survcheck(Surv(t1, t2, status) ~ 1, data2, id=id) aeq(fit2$flag , c(1,2,0,0,0)) aeq(fit2$transition, rbind(c(3,0,0,0), c(0,2,1,0), c(0,0,0,1), 0)) (fit2$overlap$id == 'B') (fit2$overlap$row ==5) all(fit2$gap$id == c("B", "C")) aeq(fit2$gap$row, c(6,8)) # scramble reord <- c(9,2,1,4,3,5,6,8,7) tfit <- survcheck(Surv(t1, t2, status) ~ 1, data2[reord,], id=id) all.equal(fit2[1:4], tfit[1:4]) # let a missing value in fit2b <- survcheck(Surv(t1, t2, status) ~ x, data2, id=id) aeq(fit2b$flag , c(1,1,0,0,0)) aeq(fit2b$transition, rbind(c(3,0,0), c(0,2,1), 0,0)) (fit2b$overlap$id == 'B') (fit2b$overlap$row ==5) all(fit2b$gap$id == "C") aeq(fit2b$gap$row, 8) # designed to trigger all 4 error types data3 <- data2 levels(data3$status) <- c("cens", "mgus", "recur", "death") data3$istate <- c("entry", "entry", "recur", "entry", "recur", "recur", "entry", "recur", "recur") fit3 <- survcheck(Surv(t1, t2, status) ~ 1, data3, id=id, istate=istate) aeq(fit3$flag, c(1, 1, 1, 2, 0)) aeq(fit3$transitions, rbind(c(3,0,0,0), 0, c(0,2,1,1), 0)) all.equal(fit3$overlap, fit2$overlap) all(fit3$teleport$id == c("A", "C")) all(fit3$teleport$row == c(3,9)) all(fit3$jump$id == "C") all(fit3$jump$row == 8) all.equal(fit3$gap, list(row=6L, id= "B"))