A lot of use cases for synthetic data involve dates (not time-to-event). It might save users time trying to diagnose error messages if ?syn explicitly said:
The following methods are the only ones that can simulate date columns without pre-processing: normrank and sample
...if that is in fact the case.
It might also be helpful to have a vignette that explicitly demonstrates simulation of data that has a subject ID column, a date column, and the remaining columns observations on those respective subject at various times.
A lot of use cases for synthetic data involve dates (not time-to-event). It might save users time trying to diagnose error messages if
?synexplicitly said:...if that is in fact the case.
It might also be helpful to have a vignette that explicitly demonstrates simulation of data that has a subject ID column, a date column, and the remaining columns observations on those respective subject at various times.