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poputils

Manipulate and analyse demographic data.

Installation

install.packages("poputils")

For end users

Data manipulation

• logit(), invlogit() Logistic transformation
• trim_01() Trim values to interval (0, 1)
• rr3() Randomly round to base 3

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

Life expectancy, life tables

• ex_to_lifetab_brass() Brass logit model
• lifeexp() Life expectancy from mortality rates
• lifetab() Life tables from mortality rates
• q0_to_m0() Infant mortality

Fertility

• tfr() Calculate total fertility rates
• tfr_to_asfr_scale() Construct age-specific rates

For developers

Checking arguments

• check_n() Check an integer scalar.

Data manipulation

• check_no_overlap_colnums() Check for argument clashes
• groups_colnums() Get column numbers for grouping variables
• 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

Stable populations

• .intrinsic_growth_rate() Growth rate implied by mortality, fertility schedules

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.