tidy_triangle_data {LexisPlotR}

Tidy triangular data (Lexis triangles)

Description

Take raw data from a data source (e.g. Human Mortality Database) and make it 'tidy'.

Usage

tidy_triangle_data(triangle_data, source = "HMD")

Arguments

triangle_data

data.frame, A data.frame containing raw triangle data.

source

character, The source of the raw data. Supported sources: HMD.

Details

When using raw triangular data from HMD or other sources, the data is not well prepared for further use. tidy_triangular_data does some transformations to prepare the data, mainly for visualization using ggplot2.

Value

A data.frame.

Author(s)

Philipp Ottolinger

Examples

## Not run: 
triangles <- readHMDweb("RUS", "Deaths_lexis", "[e-mail]", "your_password")

## End(Not run)