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ev_days

Schedule dosing events on days of the week

Description

This function lets you schedule doses on specific days of the week, allowing you to create dosing regimens on Monday/Wednesday/Friday, or Tuesday/Thursday, or every other day (however you want to define that) etc.

Usage

ev_days(
  ev = NULL,
  days = "",
  addl = 0,
  ii = 168,
  unit = c("hours", "days"),
  ...
)

Arguments

`ev`	an event object
`days`	comma- or space-separated character string of valid days of the the week (see details)
`addl`	additional doses to administer
`ii`	inter-dose interval; intended use is to keep this at the default value
`unit`	time unit; the function can only currently handle hours or days
`...`	event objects named by one the valid days of the week (see details)

Details

Valid names of the week are:

m for Monday
t for Tuesday
w for Wednesday
th for Thursday
f for Friday
sa for Saturday
s for Sunday

The whole purpose of this function is to schedule doses on specific days of the week, in a repeating weekly schedule. Please do use caution when changing ii from it's default value.

Examples

# Monday, Wednesday, Friday x 4 weeks
ev_days(ev(amt=100), days="m,w,f", addl=3)

# 50 mg Tuesdays, 100 mg Thursdays x 6 months
ev_days(t=ev(amt=50), th=ev(amt=100), addl=23)

mrgsolve

Simulate from ODE-Based Models

v0.11.1

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Kyle T Baron [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7252-5656>), Bill Gillespie [ctb], Charles Margossian [ctb], Devin Pastoor [ctb], Bill Denney [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5759-428X>), Dilawar Singh [ctb], Felicien Le Louedec [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3699-2729>), Timothy Waterhouse [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0954-9660>), Metrum Research Group [cph]

Initial release