Error when creating a ratetable in R using the relsurv package

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Hello!

I'm trying to create a ratetable in R using the relsurv package with the mortality rates data I've constructed, but I keep getting the following error:

Here’s the code I’m using:

Defining the variables for age, year, and sex

age <- 0:10 # Ages from 0 to 10
year <- 2017:2019 # Years from 2017 to 2019
sex <- c("male", "female") # Sex (male and female)

Creating a mortality rate array with random values

tasso_mortalita_array <- array(runif(66, min = 0.0001, max = 0.0015),
dim = c(length(age), length(year), length(sex)),
dimnames = list(age = as.character(age),
year = as.character(year),
sex = sex))

Creating the ratetable

pop_ratetable <- ratetable(
tasso_mortalita_array,
dimnames = dimnames(tasso_mortalita_array), # Using the correct dimnames
dimid = c("age", "year", "sex"), # Dimension identifiers
factor = c(0, 0, 1), # 0 = continuous for age and year, 1 = categorical for sex
type = c(2, 3, 1), # Dimension types
cutpoints = list(
0:10, # Age from 0 to 10
as.Date(paste(2017:2019, "-01-01", sep = "")), # Years as Date
NULL # No cutpoint for sex
)
)

The error message I receive is:

Error in ratetable(tasso_mortalita_array, dimnames = dimnames(tasso_mortalita_array), :
Aguments do not all have the same length (arg 2)

What I’ve checked so far:**

  1. The dimensions of the mortality_array seem correct (11 ages, 3 years, 2 sexes).
  2. The dimnames and cutpoints are also defined properly according to the documentation.

Can anyone help me understand why I am getting this error and how to fix it?

Thank you for your help!