Analysing cross-classified data about populations

Description

General-purpose tools for demographic analysis, broadly defined. Includes facilities for data manipulation, multistate models, projections, and plotting. Uses S4 classes and methods.

Details

The basic data structures are demographic arrays and demographic accounts.

Packages demest and demlife build on dembase: demest has facilities for Bayesian estimation and forecasting, and demlife has facilities for life tables. Package demdata has example datasets.

Creating objects

Counts, CountsOne, Movements, Net, Pool, Values, ValuesOne

Getting or setting metadata

ageTimeStep, dimnames, dimscales, dimtypes, hasRegularAgeTime, limits, midpoints, names, nIteration, pairAligned, resetIterations

Visualization

dplot, plot

Reshaping and manipulating

addDimension, alignPair, aperm, collapseCategories, collapseDimension, collapseIntervals, collapseIterations, collapseOrigDest, drop, expandCategories

Extracting or replacing

[, slab, subarray, subtotals, thinIterations

Combining

attachSubtotals, dbind

Coercion

as, as.data.frame

Demographic and statistical calculations

exposure, extrapolate, growth, impute, perturb, prop.table, redistribute, redistributeCategory, tfr