a2g {ageg}

Age to Group

Description

Function that converts numeric age values to user defined age groups.

Usage

a2g(ages, mydist)

Arguments

ages

Vector of Numeric class age values.

mydist

Vector of Character class age distributions. Values must be two integers separated by a hyphen. Remove any whitespaces on either side of the hyphen.

Value

Returns a Character class vector object of age distribution values defined by the mydist argument. The function will otherwise return an error message stating that the function requires a numeric class object.

Examples

ages <- c(3, 101, 42, 32)
mydist  <- c("5-10","11-20","21-30","31-40","41-50","51-60","61-70","71+")

a2g(ages, mydist)

# > a2g(ages, mydist)
# [1] NA      "71+"   "41-50" "31-40"