Plot the age ranges spanned by each observation period. — plotAgeSpans • SelfControlledCaseSeries

Plot the age ranges spanned by each observation period.

Usage

plotAgeSpans(
  studyPopulation,
  maxPersons = 10000,
  title = NULL,
  fileName = NULL
)

Arguments

studyPopulation: An object created using the createStudyPopulation() function.
maxPersons: The maximum number of persons to plot. If there are more than this number of persons a random sample will be taken to avoid visual clutter.
title: Optional: the main title for the plot
fileName: Name of the file where the plot should be saved, for example 'plot.png'. See the function ggplot2::ggsave() for supported file formats.

Value

A ggplot object. Use the ggplot2::ggsave() function to save to file in a different format.

Details

Plots a line per patient from their age at observation start to their age at observation end.