prep.deaths {lancet.iraqmortality}R Documentation

Loads up deaths dataset from the mortality.zip file

Description

Returns a data frame containing renamed and cleaned up variables of the 'deaths' from the provided mortality.zip file in the data directory. See the package vignette for a description of these variables. If no mortality.zip is provided, then this function will not work.

Usage

prep.deaths()

Value

Returns a data frame with information on the 629 deaths recorded in Burnham et al (2006). Descibed as the deaths data frame in the vignette.

Author(s)

Arjun Ravi Narayan, David Kane

See Also

prep.houses


[Package lancet.iraqmortality version 0.2-0 Index]