pyramid (version 1.5)

pyramids: Drawing population pyramid using vectors

Description

Drawing population pyramid using vectors. Detailed explanation is given in Japanese at http://minato.sip21c.org/swtips/R.html#PYRAMID.

Usage

pyramids(Left, Right, Center=NULL, ...)

Arguments

Left

A vector of the numbers of people given for the left pyramid.

Right

A vector of the numbers of people given for the right pyramid.

Center

If given, a vector of the age-class labels to be drawn in center. If not given, names(Left) is used instead.

...

This is the wrapper function for pyramid(). All options for pyramid() can be passed.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
 py.Males <- c(80,40,30,20,10)
 names(py.Males) <- c('0-9','10-19','20-29','30-39','40-')
 py.Females <- c(60,50,40,30,5)
 pyramids(Left=py.Males, Llab="Males", Right=py.Females, Rlab="Females",
  Laxis=c(0,50,100), main="An example of population pyramid\n with fixed axis")
# }