Could you please turn this into a self-contained reprex (short for reproducible example)? It will help us help you if we can be sure we're all working with/looking at the same stuff.
install.reprex("reprex")
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Without sample data especially, it is hard to know for sure if what I am doing is what you want. As an arbitrary stab in the dark, I would suggest maybe saving an intermediate dataframe after your third mutate
call in the revised code. From there you can use the fuzzyjoin
package to join it to itself based on whether the date is within 30 days. That may prove to not be the best option in your case, but it is where my head went when I first read your last post.