Merges the compiled thermal statistics with an external clinical dataset based on filenames/IDs. Automatically handles column name conflicts (removes .x/.y suffixes).
Usage
merge_clinical_data(
thermal_df,
clinical_df,
thermal_id = "Filename",
clinical_id = "Filename",
clean_ids = TRUE
)Arguments
- thermal_df
Data frame. The output from compile_batch_stats().
- clinical_df
Data frame. Your external clinical data.
- thermal_id
String. Column name in thermal_df to merge on. Default is "Filename".
- clinical_id
String. Column name in clinical_df to merge on. Default is "Filename".
- clean_ids
Logical. If TRUE, automatically removes file paths and extensions for matching. Default is TRUE.