doubling_time {gcplyr}

Calculate doubling time equivalent of per-capita growth rate

Description

Provided a vector of per-capita growth rates, this function returns the vector of equivalent doubling times

Usage

doubling_time(y, x_scale = 1)

Arguments

y

Vector of per-capita derivative data to calculate the equivalent doubling time of

x_scale

Numeric to scale per-capita derivative values by

Set x_scale to the ratio of the the units of y to the desired units. E.g. if y is in per-second, but the desired doubling time is in minutes, x_scale = 60 (since there are 60 seconds in 1 minute).

Value

A vector of values for the doubling time equivalent to the per-capita growth rate supplied for y