age_groups: Title Add age group column to data.frame

In DHatziioanou/simpleepi: Simplifying functions to improve the ease and speed of basic epidemiological analysis

Title Add age group column to data.frame

Description

Title Add age group column to data.frame

Usage

age_groups(
  age,
  groups = c("0-4", "5-10", "11-16", "17-24", "25-30", "31-39", "40-59", "60-79", "80+"),
  unknowns = c("-1", NA),
  factor = FALSE
)

Arguments

age	age vector
groups	Input vector of age ranges in format "N1-N2" where N1 is the lower age and N2 the upper age. Mark range where max is infinite as "N1+"
unknowns	vector of Age values to be considered unknowns eg -1, NA, "not stated"
factor	Logical; should returned age groups be formatted as factor? Default is FALSE.

Value

Returns age groups

Examples

# df <- data.frame(ID = c(1:4), Age = c(8,-1,38,26))
# groups <- c('0-4', "5-10", "11-16", "17-24", "25-30", "31-39", "40-59", "60-79", "80+")
# df$group <- age_groups(df$Age, groups, unknowns, factor)

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