agetime

Work with age, period, and cohort labels.

Installation

install.packages("agetime")

Overview

Functions for

• cleaning,
• validating,
• extracting information,
• coarsening, and
• creating new labels.

library(agetime)

Create a new set of labels.

period_labels_five(lower_first = 2001, lower_last = 2026)
#> [1] "2001-2006" "2006-2011" "2011-2016" "2016-2021" "2021-2026" "2026-2031"

Standardize existing labels.

x <- c("2003 to 2005", "2012--2015", "2000-2005")
period_standard(x)
#> [1] "2003-2005" "2012-2015" "2000-2005"

Calculate widths.

x <- c("10-14", "infants", "1-4")
age_width(x)
#> [1] 5 1 4

Filter and sort on age.

library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)

df <- data.frame(
  age = c("0-14", "100+", "15-39"),
  count = c(100, 40, 200)
)
df
#>     age count
#> 1  0-14   100
#> 2  100+    40
#> 3 15-39   200

df |>
  filter(age_lower(age) >= 15) |>
  arrange(age_lower(age))
#>     age count
#> 1 15-39   200
#> 2  100+    40

Learn more

• vignette("agetime") for a quick start
• vignette("cookbook") for task-oriented recipes
• vignette("troubleshooting") for solutions to common problems
• ?agetime for a full list of functions grouped by task