Create an alife Object

Constructs an object of class alife from a data frame, after validating its structure. Note that, this function is mostly for internal usage.

Usage

new_alife(x = data.frame())

Arguments

x

A data.frame that has the required columns for an 'alife' object. Defaults to an empty data.frame.

Value

An object of class alife.

Examples

# Create a minimal data frame with the required columns
df <- data.frame(time = 1:2, n_risk = c(10, 8), n_event = c(1, 1),
                 hazard = c(0.1, 0.125), se_log_hazard = c(0.1, 0.1),
                 lower_ci = c(0.08, 0.1), upper_ci = c(0.12, 0.15))

# Construct the alife object
my_alife_obj <- new_alife(df)
class(my_alife_obj)
#> [1] "alife"      "data.frame"