hmd.mx reads "Mx" (1x1) data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD
https://www.mortality.org) and constructs a demogdata object suitable
for plotting using plot.demogdata and fitting an LC or BMS
model using lca or an FDA model using fdm.
hmd.pop reads "Population" (1x1) data from the HMD and constructs a
demogdata object suitable for plotting using plot.demogdata.
hmd.e0 reads life expectancy at birth from the HMD and returns the
result as a ts object.
Usage
hmd.mx(country, username, password, label = country)
hmd.e0(country, username, password)
hmd.pop(country, username, password, label = country)Arguments
- country
Directory abbreviation from the HMD. For instance, Australia = "AUS".
- username
HMD username (case-sensitive)
- password
HMD password (case-sensitive)
- label
Character string giving name of country from which the data are taken.
Value
hmd.mx returns an object of class demogdata with the following components:
- year
Vector of years
- age
Vector of ages
- rate
A list containing one or more rate matrices with one age group per row and one column per year.
- pop
A list of the same form as
ratebut containing population numbers instead of demographic rates.- type
Type of object: “mortality”, “fertility” or “migration”.
- label
label
hmd.pop returns a similar object but without the rate component.
hmd.e0 returns an object of class ts with columns male, female and total.
Details
In order to read the data, users are required to create their account via the HMD website (https://www.mortality.org), and obtain a valid username and password.
Examples
if (FALSE) {
norway <- hmd.mx("NOR", username, password, "Norway")
summary(norway)
}