As spreadsheets are likely to be submitted with pre-segregated data as appears from endoscopy software output, these should be remerged prior to cleaning. This function takes the column headers and places it before each text so that the original full text is recreated. It will use the column headers as the delimiter. This should be used before textPrep as the textPrep function takes a character vector (ie the whole report and not a segregated one) only
Value
This returns a list with a dataframe containing one column of the merged text and a character vector which is the delimiter list for when the textPrep function is used
Examples
testList<-structure(list(PatientName = c("Tom Hardy", "Elma Fudd", "Bingo Man"
), HospitalNumber = c("H55435", "Y3425345", "Z343424"), Text = c("All bad. Not good",
"Serious issues", "from a land far away")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -3L))
EndoPaste(testList)
#> [[1]]
#> X1_X2_X3
#> 1 PatientName Tom Hardy\nHospitalNumber H55435\nText All bad. Not good\n
#> 2 PatientName Elma Fudd\nHospitalNumber Y3425345\nText Serious issues\n
#> 3 PatientName Bingo Man\nHospitalNumber Z343424\nText from a land far away\n
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "PatientName" "HospitalNumber" "Text"
#>