Question summary: How does one pass arguments to a function, such as coxph,
that itself is inside a function.
I am trying to write a function that will allow me to call coxph using
different outcome and time variables. The coxph works when the coxph is NOT
contained in a larger function (which passes the outcome and time variable to
use), but does not work when coxph is contained in a larger funciton.
My code:
fit0 <-
coxph(Surv(FUtime,Death)~Age_in_years_at_A1_max+factor(Diabetes)+factor(CKD_stage)+
factor(Phase1_first),data=mydata)
summary(fit0)
this works:
Call:
coxph(formula = Surv(FUtime, Death) ~ Age_in_years_at_A1_max +
factor(Diabetes) + factor(CKD_stage) +
factor(Phase1_first),
data = mydata)
n= 350, number of events= 56
coef exp(coef) se(coef) z Pr(>|z|)
Age_in_years_at_A1_max 0.04618 1.04727 0.01384 3.338 0.000845 ***
factor(Diabetes)1 0.12247 1.13029 0.28282 0.433 0.664991
factor(CKD_stage)3 -0.28418 0.75263 0.38744 -0.733 0.463261
factor(CKD_stage)4 0.33938 1.40407 0.36583 0.928 0.353572
factor(CKD_stage)5 0.97121 2.64115 0.40171 2.418 0.015618 *
factor(Phase1_first)1 0.02204 1.02229 0.29713 0.074 0.940868
other output deleted.
But this code does not work:
doit <- function(time,outcome,data){
fit0 <-
coxph(Surv(time,outcome)~Age_in_years_at_A1_max+factor(Diabetes)+factor(CKD_stage)+factor(Phase1_first),data=data)
print(summary(fit0))
}
doit(FUtime,Death,mydata)
Error in Surv(time, outcome) : object 'FUtime' not found
I am certain I have a scoping problem, but I don't know how to solve it.
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric
Medicine
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