R help - Feb 2022 - exp / log scaled version of cut?

Dear list,

For tasks involving people its often good to work with ages in exp or log
scale, since either not much or very much happens in the first 10 years of
life, and much less (or much more) happens the following years. For tables
with age range summary statistics, I sometimes would like to have a
function that would for instance cut a range of values into breaks exp()
scale equidistance bins, but with unconverted values in the labels.

Similar to the way log / exp scaling of figure axis tick marks work, but
with a factor returned.

i have not been able to find such a function. Is there one?

Thanks!

Fredrik Karlsson


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On 03.02.2022 11:06, Fredrik Karlsson wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> For tasks involving people its often good to work with ages in exp or log
> scale, since either not much or very much happens in the first 10 years of
> life, and much less (or much more) happens the following years. For tables
> with age range summary statistics, I sometimes would like to have a
> function that would for instance cut a range of values into breaks exp()
> scale equidistance bins, but with unconverted values in the labels.
> 
> Similar to the way log / exp scaling of figure axis tick marks work, but
> with a factor returned.
> 
> i have not been able to find such a function. Is there one?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Fredrik Karlsson
> 
> 

Yes, cut():

x <- runif(100, 0, 100)
cut(x, c(0, 10, 100))

Best,
Uwe Ligges