oldr (version 0.2.3)

pyramid_plot: Function to create a pyramid plot

Description

Function to create a pyramid plot

Usage

pyramid_plot(
  x,
  g,
  main = paste("Pyramid plot of", deparse(substitute(x)), "by", deparse(substitute(g))),
  xlab = paste(deparse(substitute(g)), "(", levels(g)[1], "/", levels(g)[2], ")"),
  ylab = deparse(substitute(x))
)

Value

Pyramid plot

Arguments

x

A vector (numeric, factor, character) holding age-groups

g

A binary categorical variable (usually sex)

main

Plot title

xlab

x-axis label

ylab

y-axis label

Author

Mark Myatt

Examples

pyramid_plot(
  x = cut(
    testSVY$d2, 
    breaks = seq(from = 60, to = 105, by = 5),
    include.lowest = TRUE
  ),
  g = testSVY$d3
)