Provides a data frame of the WHO growth table for a given age, sex, and type of measurement.
read_who_table(sex = NULL, age = NULL, type = "wfa")either male or female
age in years
table type, choose from wfa (weight for age), lhfa (length for age)
This function uses files included in system.file(package = "clinPK").
Previously this function also gave the option to download the tables from
WHO, but the original URL ("http://www.who.int/entity/childgrowth/standards")
no longer exists as of 2021-05-19.