ELT (version 1.2)

ReadHistory: readHistory function

Description

This function reads a data.frame and calculates exposure and number of deaths. This is the first function the user must call to build a mortality table.

Usage

ReadHistory(MyPortfolio, DateBegObs, DateEndObs,
    DateFormat, Plot = F, Color = "#A4072E", Excel = F)

Arguments

MyPortfolio

MyPortfolio is a data.frame of 6 columns as follows : -Id : Id for the line ; -Gender : Male or Female ; -DateOfBirth : aaaa/mm/jj ; -DateIn : aaaa/mm/jj ; -DateOut : aaaa/mm/jj ; -Status : "other" or "deceased".

DateBegObs

Date for the beginning of the observations.

DateEndObs

Date for the end of the observations.

DateFormat

Date format as expected by the as.Date R function.

Plot

If set to TRUE, a sub-directory will be created in the working directory. This sub-directory will contains png plots corresponding to the smoothed surface.

Color

The color that will be used for the plots (HTML notation).

Excel

If set to TRUE, a sub-directory will be created in the working directory. This sub-directory will contains excel files corresponding to the smoothed surface.