> Can anyone can help me in creation ratetable object assuming, that I have > mortality rates organized in standard way by year, gender and age (0-99).
Look at technical report #63, "Expected Survival Based on Hazard Rates", Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic. You can find it on their web page www.mayo.edu/biostatistics. It has a detailed example. Terry Therneau ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.