README.md

MortalityLaws: Parametric Mortality Models, Life Tables and HMD

Fit the most popular human mortality laws, and construct full and abridged life tables given various input indices. A mortality law is a parametric function that describes the dying-out process of individuals in a population during a significant portion of their life spans. For a comprehensive review of the most important mortality laws see Tabeau (2001). Function for downloading demographic data from the following sources are provided:

• the Human Mortality Database (HMD)
• the Australian Human Mortality Database (AHMD)
• the Canadian Human Mortality Database (CHMD)
• the Japanese Mortality Database (JMD)

Installation

1. Make sure you have the most recent version of R
2. Run the following code in your R console

install.packages("MortalityLaws")

Updating to the latest version of the package

You can track and contribute to the development of MortalityLaws on GitHub. To install it:

1. Install the release version of devtools from CRAN with install.packages("devtools").

2. Make sure you have a working development environment.

   • Windows: Install Rtools.
   • Mac: Install Xcode from the Mac App Store.
   • Linux: Install a compiler and various development libraries (details vary across different flavors of Linux).

3. Install the development version of MortalityLaws.

   devtools::install_github("mpascariu/MortalityLaws")

Help

All functions are documented in the standard way, which means that once you load the package using library(MortalityLaws) you can just type ?MortalityLaw to see the help file.