I recently had to make some pyramid plots in R. They are a useful way to compare age structures of populations. They look like this: It’s been a while since I had to make them, and in the past I’ve cooked them up in a relatively bespoke way. This time I needed to be able to have some level of programming to them - I wanted to be able to provide any two LGAs in Australia and then make a pyramid plot of them that looked …