poputils-package {poputils}

Functions for working with demographic data

Description

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

For end users

Data manipulation

• logit(),invlogit() Logistic transformation.

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.

For developers

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.

Author(s)

Maintainer: John Bryant [e-mail]

Other contributors:

• Bayesian Demography Limited [copyright holder]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://bayesiandemography.github.io/poputils/

• https://github.com/bayesiandemography/poputils

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