| age2int | 'age2int()' convert the Age column from standard HMD or HFD tables to integer | 
| getCHMDprovinces | get a named vector of CHMD province codes | 
| getHFCcountries | getHFCcountries a function to grab all present country codes used in the Human Fertility Collection | 
| getHFDcountries | internal function for grabbing the HFD country short codes. | 
| getHFDdate | internal function for grabbing the date of last update for a given HFD country | 
| getHFDitemavail | List the available data item names for a given HFD country. | 
| getHMDcountries | internal function for grabbing the HMD country short codes. | 
| getHMDitemavail | internal function for grabbing the available data item names for a given country. | 
| getJMDprefectures | get a named vector of JMD prefecture codes | 
| HFCparse | HFCparse internal function for modifying freshly read HCD data in its standard form | 
| HFDparse | internal function for modifying freshly read HFD data in its standard form | 
| HMDparse | internal function for modifying freshly read HMD data in its standard form | 
| readCHMDweb | read data from the Canadian Human Mortality Database into R | 
| readHFD | 'readHFD()' reads a standard HFD .txt table as a 'data.frame' | 
| readHFDweb | read an HFD data file directly from the web as an R data.frame | 
| readHMD | 'readHMD()' reads a standard HMD .txt table as a 'data.frame' | 
| readHMDweb | readHMDweb a basic HMD data grabber. | 
| readJMDweb | read data from the Japan Mortality Database into R | 
| userInput | userInput let the user type in a character string |