R: Schedule dosing events on days of the week

ev_days {mrgsolve} | R Documentation

## 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)

[Package mrgsolve version 1.0.0 Index]