poputils-package

Functions for working with demographic data

Functions for common tasks in demographic analyses. Some functions are aimed at end-users, and others at developers. package

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
• lifetab() Full life table
• q0_to_m0() Infant mortality

** Fertility**

• tfr() Total fertility rate

For developers

Checking arguments

• check_n() Check an integer scalar

Data manipulation

• check_no_overlap_colnums() Checking for argument clash
• 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

See Also

Useful links:

• https://bayesiandemography.github.io/poputils/
• https://github.com/bayesiandemography/poputils
• Report bugs at https://github.com/bayesiandemography/poputils/issues

Author(s)

Maintainer : John Bryant john@bayesiandemography.com

Other contributors:

• Bayesian Demography Limited [copyright holder]