Convert data set to ical file

Usage

ds2ical(
  data,
  start = start,
  end = end,
  location = NULL,
  summary.glue.string = "ID {id} [{assessor}]",
  description.glue.string = NULL
)

Arguments

data: data set
start: dplyr style event start datetime column name. Data or datetime object.
end: dplyr style event end datetime column name. Data or datetime object.
location: dplyr style event location column name
summary.glue.string: character string to pass to glue::glue() for event name (summary). Can take any column from data set.
description.glue.string: character string to pass to glue::glue() for event description. Can take any column from data set.

Value

tibble of class "ical"

Examples

df <- dplyr::tibble(
  start = c(Sys.time(), Sys.time() + lubridate::days(2)),
  id = c("1", 3), assessor = "A", location = "111", note = c(NA, "OBS")
) |>
  dplyr::mutate(end = start + lubridate::hours(2))
df |> ds2ical()
#> # A tibble: 2 × 4
#>   SUMMARY  DTSTART             DTEND               UID                          
#>   <glue>   <dttm>              <dttm>              <chr>                        
#> 1 ID 1 [A] 2024-10-25 08:17:40 2024-10-25 10:17:40 ical-09ef2f83-9eba-4d1f-a8af…
#> 2 ID 3 [A] 2024-10-27 08:17:40 2024-10-27 10:17:40 ical-55943cb0-3cfd-43a0-9ffc…
df |> ds2ical(summary.glue.string = "ID {id} [{assessor}] {note}")
#> # A tibble: 2 × 4
#>   SUMMARY      DTSTART             DTEND               UID                      
#>   <glue>       <dttm>              <dttm>              <chr>                    
#> 1 ID 1 [A]     2024-10-25 08:17:40 2024-10-25 10:17:40 ical-f0535f7e-0c5a-4ea6-…
#> 2 ID 3 [A] OBS 2024-10-27 08:17:40 2024-10-27 10:17:40 ical-2c246f66-2ec6-4b0d-…
# Export .ics file: (not run)
ical <- df |> ds2ical(start, end, location,
description.glue.string = "{note}")
# ical |> calendar::ic_write(file=here::here("calendar.ics"))