Dear Avi Gross, Thank you very much for your email. Actually, I have a little knowledge of R programming.
I have a dataset of ages ranging from 10 to 90. Now, I want to find out the Whipple’s index for age heaping among individuals for each digit like 0,1,...,9. I have searched in google I got the following functions. That's why I use the package and the following code. *check_heaping_whipple(Value, Age, ageMin = 25, ageMax = 65, digit = c(0, 5)) * [link: https://rdrr.io/github/timriffe/DemoTools/man/check_heaping_whipple.html] Thanks in advance. Md On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 10:48 PM Avi Gross via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > It is not too clear to me what you want to do and why that package is the > way to do it. Is the package a required part of your assignment? If so, > maybe someone else can help you find how to properly install it on your > machine, assuming you have permissions to replace the other package it > seems to require. You may need to create your own environment. If you are > open to other ways, see below. > > Are you trying to do something as simple as counting how many people in > your data are in various buckets such as each age truncated or rounded to > an integer from 0 to 99? If so, you might miss some of my cousins alive at > 100 or that died at 103 and 105 recently 😉 > > Or do you want ages in groups of 10 or so meaning the first of two digits > is 0 through 9? > > Many such things can be done quite easily without the package if you wish. > > As far as I can tell, your code reads in a data.frame from your local file > with any number of columns that you do not specify. If it is one, the > solution becomes much easier. You then for some reason feel the need to > convert it to a matrix. You then do whatever your Whipple does several ways. > > Here is an outline of ways you can do this yourself. > > First, combine all your data into one or more vectors. You already have > that in your data.frame but if all columns are numeric, you can of course > do something with a matrix. > > Then make sure you remove anything objectionable, such as negative numbers > or numbers too large or NA or whatever your logic requires. > > If you have a variable ready with N entries to hold the buckets, such as > length(0:100) or for even buckets of 5, perhaps length(0:99)/5 you > initialize that to all zeroes. > > Now take your data, and perhaps transform it into a copy where every age > is truncated to an integer or divided by 5 first or whatever you need so it > contains a pure integer like 6 or 12. What I mean is if your buckets are 5 > wide, and you want 5:9 to map into one bucket, your transform might be > as.integer(original/5.0) or one of many variants like that. > > You can now simply use one of many methods in R to loop through your > values that result and assuming you have a zeroed vector called counter and > the current value being looked at is N, you simply increment counter[N] or > of N-1 or whatever your logic requires. > > Alternately R has many built-in methods (or in other packages) like cut() > that might do something similar without as much work. > > And just for the heck of it, I tried your download instructions. Unlike > your three choices, I was offered 13 choices and as I had no clue what YOU > were supposed to download, I aborted. > > 1: All > 2: CRAN packages only > 3: None > 4: colorspace (2.0-1 -> 2.0-2) [CRAN] > 5: isoband (0.2.4 -> 0.2.5) [CRAN] > 6: utf8 (1.2.1 -> 1.2.2) [CRAN] > 7: cli (3.0.0 -> 3.0.1) [CRAN] > 8: ggplot2 (3.3.3 -> 3.3.5) [CRAN] > 9: pillar (1.6.1 -> 1.6.2) [CRAN] > 10: tibble (3.1.2 -> 3.1.3) [CRAN] > 11: dplyr (1.0.6 -> 1.0.7) [CRAN] > 12: Rcpp (1.0.6 -> 1.0.7) [CRAN] > 13: curl (4.3.1 -> 4.3.2) [CRAN] > 14: cpp11 (0.2.7 -> 0.3.1) [CRAN] > > In your case, if you selected All, what exactly did you expect? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Md. Moyazzem > Hossain > Sent: Sunday, August 8, 2021 5:25 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Calculation of Age heaping > > Dear R-expert, > > I hope that you are doing well. > > I am interested to calculate the age heaping for each digit (0,1,...,9) > based on my data set. However, when I run the R code, I got the following > errors. Please help me in this regard. > > ########################################## > library(remotes) > install_github("timriffe/DemoTools") > > ### > Downloading GitHub repo timriffe/DemoTools@HEAD These packages have more > recent versions available. > It is recommended to update all of them. > Which would you like to update? > > 1: All > 2: CRAN packages only > 3: None > > Enter one or more numbers, or an empty line to skip updates: 1 > > *After installing some packages, I got the following error message* > > package ‘backports’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Error: Failed to install 'DemoTools' from GitHub: > (converted from warning) cannot remove prior installation of package > ‘backports’ > > I am attaching the R-code and data file along with this email. > > Please help me in this regard. > > Thanks in advance. > -- > Best Regards, > Md. Moyazzem Hossain > Associate Professor > Department of Statistics > Jahangirnagar University > Savar, Dhaka-1342 > Bangladesh > Website: http://www.juniv.edu/teachers/hossainmm > Research: *Google Scholar > <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-U03XCgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao>*; > *ResearchGate > <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Md_Hossain107>*; *ORCID iD > <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3593-6936>* > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Best Regards, Md. Moyazzem Hossain Associate Professor Department of Statistics Jahangirnagar University Savar, Dhaka-1342 Bangladesh Website: http://www.juniv.edu/teachers/hossainmm Research: *Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-U03XCgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao>*; *ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Md_Hossain107>*; *ORCID iD <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3593-6936>* [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
