utlede_aldersklasse: Add variable aldersklasse in decades

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Add variable aldersklasse in decades

Description

Groups together ages in age-classes of decades, p.ex. "50-59" where ages 50 and 59 are min and max values of the age-class. Ages from 18 to 49 are grouped together, whereas ages under 18 years or above 99 years are given age-class <NA>.

Usage

utlede_aldersklasse(df, var = PasientAlder)

Arguments

df	data.frame, must contain a column with age as a continuous variable
var	is the variable name of the age-variable in df. Default value is PasientAlder.

Value

The input data.frame df is returned as it is, with one new column named aldersklasse added.

Examples

df <-  data.frame(age = c(10,20,59,60, NA, 61,69,70,99,100))
utlede_aldersklasse(df = df, var = age)

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