ageg (version 1.0.0)

a2g: Age to Group

Description

Function that converts numeric age values to user defined age groups.

Usage

a2g(ages, mydist)

Value

Returns a Character class vector object of age distribution values defined by the mydist argument. The function will otherwise return an error message stating that the function requires a numeric class object.

Arguments

ages

Vector of Numeric class age values.

mydist

Vector of Character class age distributions. Values must be two integers separated by a hyphen. Remove any whitespaces on either side of the hyphen.

Examples

ages <- c(3, 101, 42, 32)
mydist  <- c("5-10","11-20","21-30","31-40","41-50","51-60","61-70","71+")

a2g(ages, mydist)

# > a2g(ages, mydist)
# [1] NA      "71+"   "41-50" "31-40"