create_groupVariable {APCtools}

Internal helper to create a group variable as base for a density matrix

Description

Internal helper function to create a group variable based on the categorization of either age, period or cohort. To be called from within plot_densityMatrix.

Usage

create_groupVariable(dat, APC_var, groups_list)

Arguments

dat

Dataset with a column "age", "period" or "cohort", dependent on the specified APC_var.

APC_var

One of c("age","period","cohort").

groups_list

A list with each element specifying the borders of one row or column in the density matrix. E.g., if the period should be visualized in decade columns from 1980 to 2009, specify groups_list = list(c(1980,1989), c(1990,1999), c(2000,2009)). The list can be named to specify labels for the categories.

Value

Vector for the grouping that can be added as additional column to the data.