plotMortalityTableComparisons {MortalityTables}

Plot multiple mortality tables (life tables) in one plot, relative to a given reference table

Description

plotMortalityTableComparisons prints multiple life tables (objects of child classes of mortalityTable) in one plot and scales each by the given reference table, so that the relative mortality can be easily seen. A legend is added showing the names of the tables.

Usage

plotMortalityTableComparisons(
  data,
  ...,
  aes = NULL,
  ages = NULL,
  xlim = NULL,
  ylim = NULL,
  xlab = NULL,
  ylab = NULL,
  title = "",
  legend.position = c(0.9, 0.1),
  legend.justification = c(1, 0),
  legend.title = "Sterbetafel",
  legend.key.width = unit(25, "mm"),
  reference = NULL
)

Arguments

data

First life table to be plotted. Either a data.frame generated by makeQxDataFrame or a mortalityTable object

...

Additional life tables to be plotted (if data is a mortalityTable object)

aes

Optional aesthetics to append or override the default. The default aesthetics will always be applied first and provide defaults for x, y and color. This argument can be used to override the defaults or append other aesthetics.

ages

Plot only the given ages

xlim

X-axis limitatation (as a two-element vector)

ylim

Y-axis limitatation (as a two-element vector)

xlab

X-axis label (default: "Alter")

ylab

Y-axis label (default: "Sterbewahrscheinlichkeit q_x relativ zu ....")

title

The plot title

legend.position

The position of the legend (default is c(0.9,0.1))

legend.justification

The justification of the legend (default is c(1,))

legend.title

Title of the legend (NULL to hide)

legend.key.width

The keywith of the lines in the legend (default is unit(25,"mm"))

reference

The reference table that determines the 100% values. If not given, the first argument of data is used as reference table.

Examples

# Load the Austrian census data
mortalityTables.load("Austria_Census")

# Compare some census tables with the mortality of 2011 Austrian males
# plot with the reference argument is the same as calling plotMortalityTableComparisons
plot(mort.AT.census.1869.male, mort.AT.census.1869.female,
     mort.AT.census.1971.male, mort.AT.census.1971.female,
     mort.AT.census.2011.male, mort.AT.census.2011.female,
     title = "Austrian Census tables, relative to 1971 males",
     reference = mort.AT.census.1971.male)
plotMortalityTableComparisons(mort.AT.census.1869.male, mort.AT.census.1869.female,
     mort.AT.census.1971.male, mort.AT.census.1971.female,
     mort.AT.census.2011.male, mort.AT.census.2011.female,
     title = "Austrian Census tables, relative to 1971 males",
     reference = mort.AT.census.1971.male)