createSexAgeCateg: Create a Vector of Age and Sex Categories

In gevamaimon/CLSAR: Helper Functions for CLSA Data

Description

This function will create a vector of the age and sex category of the the participants. Before using this function, make sure that the IDs associated with the sex and age vectors are indentically ordered. Note that if the sex vector is omitted, an age category vector will be produced.

Usage

createSexAgeCateg(ageVec, sexVec = c(), breaks)

Arguments

ageVec	Vector containing the age of participants.
sexVec	Vector containing the sex of participants.
breaks	Indicates the interval size in years of each category. Currently, intervals of 5, 10 and 20 years are supported.

Value

This function returns a vector of age and sex, if specified, categories.

Author(s)

Phil Boileau, philippe.boileau (at) rimuhc.ca

Examples

sex <- c("M", "F", "F")
age <- c(40, 33, 34)
ageSexVec <- createSexAgeCateg(ageVec = age, sexVec = sex,
                               breaks = 5)

gevamaimon/CLSAR documentation built on May 17, 2019, 1:53 p.m.