Internal helper to plot a categorical density — plot_density

Internal helper function to plot one categorical density, to be called from within plot_density.

Usage

plot_density_categorical(
  dat,
  y_var,
  dat_highlightDiagonals = NULL,
  weights_var = NULL,
  xlab = NULL,
  ylab = NULL
)

dat: Dataset with columns period and age and the main variable specified through argument y_var.
y_var: Character name of the main variable to be plotted.
dat_highlightDiagonals: Optional dataset created by create_highlightDiagonalData to highlight specific diagonals in a density matrix.
weights_var: Optional character name of a weights variable used to project the results in the sample to some population.
xlab, ylab: Optional plot annotations.