Title of manuscript: Winter Life Expectancy Reduction in Europe

Authors: Valentin Rousson, Fred Paccaud and Isabella Locatelli (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Corresponding author: valentin.rousson@unisante.ch

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The R file WLER.r reproduces the four figures of the paper 

Input: an ASCII file "weeklyLE.txt" containing weekly life expectancies by country, sex, year and week, calculated from Eurostat weekly mortality data.

Output: a PDF file "WLER.pdf" containing the four figures.

To run the program, open an R session and just write: 

source("WLER.R")

Our code has been tested on R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)