demography: extract.ages – R documentation

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extract.ages

Extract some ages from a demogdata object

Creates subset of demogdata object.

extract.ages(data, ages, combine.upper = TRUE)

`data`	Demogdata object such as created using `read.demogdata` or `smooth.demogdata`.
`ages`	Vector of ages to extract from data.
`combine.upper`	If TRUE, ages beyond the maximum of `ages` are combined into the upper age group.

Demogdata object with same components as data but with a subset of ages.

Rob J Hyndman

france.teens <- extract.ages(fr.mort,13:19,FALSE)
plot(france.teens)

Forecasting Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data

v1.22

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Rob J Hyndman with contributions from Heather Booth, Leonie Tickle and John Maindonald.

Initial release