[R] Survival: pyears and ratetable: expected events

[Terry Therneau]

>I am having a (really) hard time getting pyears to work together with a
> ratetable to give me the number of expected events (deaths).

 The most complete discussion of pyears and rate tables is in a
technical report from the Biostatistics group at Mayo
   http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/biostat/
Number 63 I believe.

Have you looked at that?

Terry Therneau