It's a common use case that often the string values, particularly in PARAM fields in ADaM datasets have their important differences appear only late in the string.
A = data.frame(PARAM="Change from Baseline in Systolic Blood Pressure at Week 12")
B = data.frame(PARAM="Change from Baseline in Systolic Blood Pressure at Week 24")
In those cases, variable differences are more visible with output like the below: This is not something easily obtained by fiddling with the string lengths for the outputs.
VARIABLE REC BASE COMPARE
---------- ---- -------------------------- --------------------------
PARAM 1 ... sure at Week 12 ... sure at Week 24
I realize why such a change would not be advisable early in development, but it seems useful. The hardest part is limiting scope so the output isn't too general, and possibly too cryptic.
It's a common use case that often the string values, particularly in PARAM fields in ADaM datasets have their important differences appear only late in the string.
In those cases, variable differences are more visible with output like the below: This is not something easily obtained by fiddling with the string lengths for the outputs.
I realize why such a change would not be advisable early in development, but it seems useful. The hardest part is limiting scope so the output isn't too general, and possibly too cryptic.