R: Pennsylvania Lung Cancer

pennLC {RgoogleMaps} | R Documentation

## Pennsylvania Lung Cancer

### Description

County-level (n=67) population/case data for lung cancer in Pennsylvania in 2002, stratified on race (white vs non-white), gender and age (Under 40, 40-59, 60-69 and 70+). Additionally, county-specific smoking rates.

### Usage

    data(pennLC)

### Format

List of 3 items:

`geo` | a table of county IDs, longitude/latitude of the geographic centroid of each county
`data` | a table of county IDs, number of cases, population and strata information
`smoking` | a table of county IDs and proportion of smokers
`spatial.polygon` | an object of class SpatialPolygons (See SpatialPolygons-class)

### Source

Population data was obtained from the 2000 decennial census, lung cancer and smoking data were obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of Health website: http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/

### See Also

`NYleukemia`

### Examples

    data(pennLC)
    #pennLC$geo
    #pennLC$data
    #pennLC$smoking

    # Map smoking rates in Pennsylvania
    #mapvariable(pennLC$smoking[,2], pennLC$spatial.polygon)

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