Sometimes, due to upstream data pipeline issues, we have to work with a version history that isn't completely up to date, but with functions that expect archives that are completely up to date, or equally as up-to-date as another archive. This function provides one way to approach such mismatches: pretend that we've "observed" additional versions, filling in these versions with NAs or extrapolated values.
Usage
epix_fill_through_version(x, fill_versions_end, how = c("na", "locf"))Arguments
- x
An
epi_archive- fill_versions_end
Length-1, same class&type as
x$version: the version through which to fill in missing version history; this will be the result's$versions_endunless it already had a later$versions_end.- how
Optional;
"na"or"locf":"na"will fill in any missing required version history withNAs, by inserting (if necessary) an update immediately after the current$versions_endthat revises all existing measurements to beNA(this is only supported forversionclasses with anext_afterimplementation);"locf"will fill in missing version history with the last version of each observation carried forward (LOCF), by leaving the update$DTalone (otherepi_archivemethods are based on LOCF). Default is"na".