#A function which takes the current demographics of a region, adds births as age zero, and then shifts all ages up one year. #Used to account for aging in each round of data INCREMENT_AGES <- function(DEMOGRAPHIC_DATA,MALE_AND_FEMALE_BIRTHS){ DEMOGRAPHIC_DATA[85,] <- colSums(DEMOGRAPHIC_DATA[85:86,] ) DEMOGRAPHIC_DATA <- DEMOGRAPHIC_DATA[1:85,] rownames(DEMOGRAPHIC_DATA ) <- 1:85 return(rbind(MALE_AND_FEMALE_BIRTHS,DEMOGRAPHIC_DATA) ) }