spine_preprocess: Preprocess data for spine chart

In PublicHealthEngland/fingertipscharts: Produce Charts that you See on the Fingertips Website

Preprocess data for spine chart

Description

Returns a data frame with the latest time period of data for each indicator name.

Usage

spine_preprocess(data, indicator, timeperiod_sortable)

Arguments

data	a data frame to create the spine chart from. The data frame should contain records for all area types included in the chart (eg, if plotting for County & UA with a comparator of region and a median line for national, the data frame should contain records for all of these data). The minimum field requirements in the data frame are; value, count, area_code, indicator, timeperiod, polarity, significance, area_type. See below for the definitions of these fields
indicator	unquoted field name for indicators. This should be what is presented as the label for the final spine chart, hence should be unique for each vertabra. Be careful the indicator doesn't have sub-categories based on other fields, such as sex (male, female, persons) or age group
timeperiod_sortable	unquoted field name containing the time period that is numeric and sortable, such that higher values are a later time period

Details

This processing only takes place on the indicator field and the time period field provided. If the data contains multiple sexes or age groups for an indicator, make sure the indicator field reflects this.

Value

A processed data frame for latest time periods of given indicators

PublicHealthEngland/fingertipscharts documentation built on Sept. 21, 2023, 10:31 p.m.