create.Lexis.matrix: Creates a Lexis surface matrix.

In ROMIplot: Plots Surfaces of Rates of Mortality Improvement

Description

Creates a matrix (age by year) based on data formatted in the Human Mortality Database format.

Usage

create.Lexis.matrix(HMD.dataset, Sex = "Female", minage = 50, maxage = 100,
				minyear = 1950, maxyear = 2011)

Arguments

HMD.dataset	A dataset as formatted in the Human Mortality Database, i.e. a data frame with the columns "Year", "Age", "Female", "Male", "Total"
Sex	For which sex should the matrix be created? Default setting is "Female". Other options are "Male" and "Total".
minage	HMD data cover ages 0 to 100. Please select here a value for the lower bound to be included. Default is 50.
maxage	HMD data cover ages 0 to 100. Please select here a value for the upper bound to be included. Default is 100.
minyear	Please select the first year to be included in the matrix. Default is 1950.
maxyear	Please select the last year to be included in the matrix. Default is 2011.

Details

It is expected that age is an integer.

Value

A matrix with the dimensions: length(minage:maxage) x length(minyear:maxyear) Rows represent ages, columns represent years.

Author(s)

Roland Rau

Examples

theyears <- 1900:2012
theages <- 0:110
n <- length(theyears) * length(theages)

# 'Simulating' a data frame in the HMD format
HMD.formatted.data <- data.frame(Year=sort(rep(theyears, length(theages))),
                                 Age = rep(theages, length(theyears)),
                                 Female = runif(n=n),
                                 Male = runif(n=n),
                                 Total = runif(n=n))

a.Lexis.matrix <- create.Lexis.matrix(HMD.dataset=HMD.formatted.data,
                                      Sex="Total", minage=30, maxage=105,
                                      minyear=1905, maxyear=2010)

ROMIplot documentation built on May 1, 2019, 8:27 p.m.