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poputils

Manipulate and analyse demographic data.

Installation

install.packages("poputils")                            ## CRAN version
devtools::install_github("bayesiandemography/poputils") ## development version

For end users

Data manipulation

• logit(), invlogit() Logistic transformation.

Life expectancy, life tables

• ex_to_lifetab_brass() Use the Brass logit model to derive life tables with specified life expectancies.
• lifeexp() Calculate life expectancy from mortality rates.
• lifetab() Calculate life tables from mortality rates.

Labels

• age_labels() Create age labels.
• age_lower(), age_mid(), age_upper() Limits and midpoints of age groups.
• combine_age() Merge age group labels.
• reformat_age() Reformat age group labels.
• reformat_sex() Reformat sex labels.
• set_age_open() Specify oldest age group.

For developers

Data manipulation

• check_no_overlap_colnums() Check for argument clashes.
• groups_colnums() Get column numbers for grouping variables.
• logit(), invlogit() Logistic transformation.
• matrix_to_list_of_cols(), matrix_to_list_of_rows() Split matrix.
• to_matrix() Convert data frame to matrix.

Labels

• age_group_type() Infer type of age group label.
• check_age() Validity checks for age group labels.
• find_label_female(), find_label_male() Identify sex or gender labels.
• find_var_age(), find_var_sexgender(), find_var_time() Identify age, sex/gender, time variables.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.