makeAgeVars: Function for making Age and AgeCat variables

In vando026/ahri: R functions for estimating HIV incidence with AHRI data

Function for making Age and AgeCat variables

Description

Function for making Age and AgeCat variables

Usage

makeAgeVars(dat, time2 = NULL, age_cut = NULL, birthdate = NULL)

Arguments

dat	A dataset
time2	The name of a date variable that is used to calculate the Age variable using the getBirthDate function. Age is calculated as (time2 - birthdate)/365.35.
age_cut	Vector of ages to make age categories, default is to use values from AgeCat in link{setArgs}.
birthdate	Dataset of birthdates, if NULL it uses getBirthDate.

Value

data.frame

Examples

hiv <- makeAgeVars(dat=getHIV(), age_cut=c(15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50))

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