Function to create a pyramid plot — pyramid.plot • oldr

Function to create a pyramid plot

Usage

pyramid.plot(
  x,
  g,
  main = paste("Pyramid plot of", deparse(substitute(x)), "by", deparse(substitute(g))),
  xlab = paste(deparse(substitute(g)), "(", levels(g)[1], "/", levels(g)[2], ")"),
  ylab = deparse(substitute(x))
)

Arguments

x: A vector (numeric, factor, character) holding age-groups
g: A binary categorical variable (usually sex)
main: Plot title
xlab: x-axis label
ylab: y-axis label

Value

Pyramid plot

Author

Mark Myatt

Examples

  ##
  pyramid.plot(x = cut(testSVY$d2,
                       breaks = seq(from = 60, to = 105, by = 5),
                       include.lowest = TRUE),
               g = testSVY$d3)