mets (version 1.2)

lifecourse: Spaghetti plot

Description

Life-course plot for event life data with recurrent events

Usage

lifecourse(formula, data, id = "id", group = NULL, type = "l", lty = 1,
  col = 1:10, alpha = 0.3, lwd = 1, recurrent.col = NULL,
  legend = NULL, by = NULL, status.legend = NULL,
  place.sl = "bottomright", xlab = "Time", ylab = "", add = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

formula

Formula (Event(start,slut,status) ~ )

data

data.frame

id

Id variable

group

group variable

type

Type (line 'l', stair 's', ...)

lty

Line type

col

Colour

alpha

transparency (0-1)

lwd

Line width

recurrent.col

col of recurrence type

legend

position of optional id legend

by

make separate plot for each level in 'by' (formula, name of column, or vector)

status.legend

Status legend

place.sl

Placement of status legend

xlab

Label of X-axis

ylab

Label of Y-axis

add

Add to existing device

...

Additional arguments to lower level arguments

Examples

data = data.frame(id=c(1,1,1,2,2),start=c(0,1,2,3,4),slut=c(1,2,4,4,7),
                  type=c(1,2,3,2,3),status=c(0,1,2,1,2),group=c(1,1,1,2,2))
ll = lifecourse(Event(start,slut,status)~id,data,id="id")
ll = lifecourse(Event(start,slut,status)~id,data,id="id",recurrent.col="type")

ll = lifecourse(Event(start,slut,status)~id,data,id="id",group=~group,col=1:2)
op <- par(mfrow=c(1,2))
ll = lifecourse(Event(start,slut,status)~id,data,id="id",by=~group)
par(op)
legends=c("censored","pregnant","married")
ll = lifecourse(Event(start,slut,status)~id,data,id="id",group=~group,col=1:2,status.legend=legends)