plotMLT {LifeTables}

Plotting function for life table quantities

Description

Plots either a single column or scrolls through a plot for each column from a life table calculated from a user supplied mortality rate schedule

Usage

plotMLT(..., mx.out, sex, lt.col = "All", log = FALSE, 
	age = c(0, 1, seq(5, 110, 5)))

Arguments

...

Arguments to pass to par

mx.out

A mortality rate schedule with age groups 0-1, 1-4, 5-9, 10-14,..., up to any open interval.

sex

The sex for the calculated life table. "male" or "female"

lt.col

The desired life table quantity to plot. lt.col="All", the default, will scroll through a plot of each quantity when the user keys "return" after each plot. Otherwise a specific column can be selected by using the following integers (1-nmx, 2-nqx, 3-npx, 4-ndx, 5-lx, 6-nLx, 7-Tx, 8-ex)

log

Logical. If TRUE and lt.col is not set to "All", the y-axis will be in log scale.

age

The start ages for each interval in the life table

Details

If lt.col=3 (npx) and log=TRUE, a warning message will appear noting that a y value <= 0 is omitted. This is the probability of surviving the final interval, which is by definition, 0.

Author(s)

David J. Sharrow

See Also

lt.mx

Examples

	## Not run: 
mx.examp <- exp(mortmod(pattern=1, alpha=.05, sex="male")) 
plotMLT(mx.out=mx.examp, sex="male", lt.col="All")

plotMLT(mx.out=mx.examp, sex="male", lt.col=3, log=TRUE)

## End(Not run)