Helper function to get a mask based on a list of vectors with identifiers. This function is used to gather exclusions in the run_nca() function.

Helper function to get a mask based on a list of vectors with identifiers. This function is used to gather exclusions in the run_nca() function.

Usage

parse_exclusions(data, exclusions)

Arguments

data

data.frame

exclusions

a named list of lists, with the names corresponding to columns in the dataset. Each sub-list should contain vectors id and reason. E.g.

list( SAMPLEID = list( id = c("017011111-20120908T120000", "017011028-20130719T010000", "017011033-20140318T040000"), reason = c("unexplained anomaly", "manual lambda-z check", "assay error") ) )

Value

a list with: the mask (vector of T/F) that indicates the rows in the data to exclude, and a vector of reasons for exclusions (NA if not excluded)