lexis.survey: Deprecated. Emphasize a survey range in a Lexis grid Takes an...

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Description

Deprecated. Emphasize a survey range in a Lexis grid Takes an existing Lexis grid and adds a coloured parallelogram to highlight a survey range.

Usage

lexis.survey(lg, from_date, to_date, from_age, to_age,
  fill = lpr_colours()[6], alpha = 0.7)

Arguments

lg,	an existing object originally created with lexis.grid().
from_date	character, set the beginning of the survey in format "YYYY-MM-DD".
to_date	character, set the end of the survey in format "YYYY-MM-DD".
from_age	numeric, set the starting age of the survey.
to_age	numeric, set the ending age of the survey.
fill	character, set the colour to fill the parallelogram. Default is "orange".
alpha	numeric, set the transparency of the fill colour. Default is 0.5.

Details

The function can be used to plot the time and age range of a survey. Use from_date and to_date to specify the time range the survey took place and from_age and to_age to define the considered ages of participants/observations.

Author(s)

Philipp Ottolinger

Examples

## Not run: 
library(LexisPlotR)
lg <- lexis.grid(year.start = 1980, year.end = 1990, age.start = 30, age.end = 40)
lexis.survey(lg, from_date = "1982-09-01", to_date = "1986-03-01", from_age = 32, to_age = 36)

## End(Not run)

LexisPlotR documentation built on April 14, 2020, 7:38 p.m.