ageTimeStep: Get the age-time step used by a demographic array.

In StatisticsNZ/dembase: Analysing Cross-Classified Data about Populations

Description

If a object has a regular age-time plan, then ageTimeStep returns the length of the age-time steps used; otherwise it raises an error.

Usage

ageTimeStep(object)

## S4 method for signature 'DemographicArray'
ageTimeStep(object)

## S4 method for signature 'MetaData'
ageTimeStep(object)

Arguments

object

Object of class DemographicArray.

Value

A number (i.e. a numeric vector of length 1).

See Also

hasRegularAgeTime, DemographicArray, dimtypes, dimscales

Examples

library(demdata)
x <- Counts(VAPopn)
x
hasRegularAgeTime(x)

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