Canine-Human Age Equivalent

Calculates canines equivalent human age (for fun)

chae(x)

Arguments

x	numeric vector, dog age

Value

numeric vector, equivalent human age

References

Wang, T., J. M, A.N. Hogan, S. Fong, K. Licon et al. (2020) quantitative translation of dog-to-human aging by conserved remodeling of epigenetic networks

Author

Jeffrey S. Evans <jeffrey_evans@tnc.org>

Examples

dat <- data.frame(DogAge = seq(0,18,0.25),
             HumanAge=chae(seq(0,18,0.25)))[-1,]

plot(dat$DogAge, dat$HumanAge, "l",
     main="Canine-Human Age Equivalence",
   ylab="Human Age", xlab="Dog Age")
  points( 12, chae(12), col="red", pch=19, cex=1.5)
  points( 7, chae(7), col="blue", pch=19, cex=1.5)
  points( 0.5, chae(0.5), col="black", pch=19, cex=1.5)
legend("bottomright", legend=c("Camas (12-YO)", "Kele (7-YO)", "Aster (0.5-YO)"), 
      pch=c(19,19,19), cex=c(1.5,1.5,1.5), 
       col=c("red","blue","black"))