MortalityLaws

2.2.0

Parametric Mortality Models, Life Tables and HMD

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11.6Kdownloads / year

92.2%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Marius D. PascariuFirst published 2017-10-2422 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fit the most popular human mortality 'laws', and construct full and abridge 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) doi:10.1007/0-306-47562-6_1. Practical functions for downloading data from various human mortality databases are provided as well.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("MortalityLaws", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("mpascariu/MortalityLaws")

Development version from mpascariu/MortalityLaws. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-mortalitylaws

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-MortalityLaws

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-MortalityLaws

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 3.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.25

92.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-03-30
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 239 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 1%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mpascariu/mortalitylaws

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (6)

RCurl pbapply tidyr rvest httrmethods

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none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

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none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

demofit vital MortalityGaps ungroup

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Marius D. Pascariu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Marius D. Pascariu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Vladimir Canudas-Romo

Contributor · added in 1.0.5

Marius D. Pascariu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-10-24
Total releases: 22 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 20 KB / 5 files
Download size: 454 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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