Closes #172 - Add warning for expectation of input dm

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NEWS.md

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 - Update to `date_cut()` and  `special_dm_cut()` functions to allow for 
 datacut date to be null. In this case, all records for this patient 
 will be kept/left unchanged.
+- Warning added to `process_cut` if expected dataset `dm` is missing
 
 ## Breaking Changes
 - N/A

R/process_cut.R

@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ no_cut_v empty, in which case a default value of vector() will be used."
     msg = "special_dm must be either TRUE or FALSE"
   )
   if (special_dm) {
+    assert_that("dm" %in% names(source_sdtm_data),
+      msg = "dataset `dm` is missing but special_dm processing expects this"
+    )
     assert_that(
       setequal(names(source_sdtm_data), c(
         patient_cut_v, date_cut_m[, 1], no_cut_v,