capitalize_firstLetter

Internal helper function to capitalize the first letter of a character value.
The use case is to create a plot label like 'Age' from a variable name like
'age'.

Age-Period-Cohort (APC) analyses are used to differentiate relevant drivers for long-term developments.
The 'APCtools' package offers visualization techniques and general routines to simplify the workflow of an APC analysis.
Sophisticated functions are available both for descriptive and regression model-based analyses.
For the former, we use density (or ridgeline) matrices and (hexagonally binned) heatmaps as innovative visualization
techniques building on the concept of Lexis diagrams.
Model-based analyses build on the separation of the temporal dimensions based on generalized additive models,
where a tensor product interaction surface (usually between age and period) is utilized
to represent the third dimension (usually cohort) on its diagonal.
Such tensor product surfaces can also be estimated while accounting for
further covariates in the regression model.
See Weigert et al. (2021) <doi:10.1177/1354816620987198> for methodological details.

Alexander Bauer

APCtools

Routines for Descriptive and Model-Based APC Analysis

Maximilian Weigert

Hawre Jalal

capitalize_firstLetter function

<dl><dt>char</dt>
<dd>Character value whose first letter should be capitalized</dd></dl>

Arguments

Internal function to capitalize the first letter of a character — capitalize_firstLetter

<dl>

<dt>char</dt>
<dd>Character value whose first letter should be capitalized</dd>

</dl>

capitalize_firstLetter: Internal function to capitalize the first letter of a character

Description

Usage

Arguments