plot.lifetable {demography}R Documentation

Plot life expectancy from lifetable

Description

plots life expectancy for each age and each year as functional time series.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'lifetable'
plot(
  x,
  years = x$year,
  main,
  xlab = "Age",
  ylab = "Expected number of years left",
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'lifetable'
lines(x, years = x$year, ...)

Arguments

x

Output from lifetable.

years

Years to plot. Default: all available years.

main

Main title.

xlab

Label for x-axis.

ylab

Label for y-axis.

...

Additional arguments passed to plot.fds.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

life.expectancy, lifetable.

Examples

france.lt <- lifetable(fr.mort)
plot(france.lt)

france.LC <- lca(fr.mort)
france.fcast <- forecast(france.LC)
france.lt.f <- lifetable(france.fcast)
plot(france.lt.f,years=2010)

[Package demography version 2.0 Index]