age_redefine: Age Redefine

In tatiana-gilchrist/y2help: Basic Helper Functions

Description

This function takes an age variable in either year form (i.e. 1995) or age form (i.e. 24) and turns it into a standard grouped age variable called AgeRange.

Usage

age_redefine(df, var)

Arguments

df	This is the name of the dataframe with the age variable
var	This is the name of the age variable

Value

Returns a variable with the following age ranges: "18-24", "25-34", "35-44", "45-54", "55-64", "65+"

Examples

x <- c(1989,	  1972,	  1994,	  1954,	  1977,	  1962,	  1945,	  2000,	  1965,	  1969,	  1973,	  1991,	  1974,	  1987,	  1969,	  1981,	  1959,	  1980,	  1949,	  1975,	  1985,	  1952,	  1959,	  1973,	  1968,	  1973,	  1998,	  1991,	  1991,	1972) %>%
as.data.frame() %>%
 rename(
   year = "."
 )

age_redefine(x, year)

OR

x <- c(30,47,25, 65, 42,57,74,19,54,50,46,28,45,32,50,38,60,39,70,44,34,67,60,46,51,46,21,28,28,47) %>%
as.data.frame() %>%
 rename(
   year = "."
 )

age_redefine(x, year)

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