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poputils 0.4.2

Interface

  • Modify function rr3 to use C code. (#30)
  • Modified tests for upcoming changes to package rvec (where random variant functions for discrete distributions will always return doubles).

poputils 0.4.1

CRAN release: 2025-03-27

  • Modify C++ function qx_to_ex() to avoid possible memory leekage found by valgrind.

poputils 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2025-03-23

Interface

  • If data already contains columns called "lx", "Lx", "dx", "ex", then lifetab() overwrites these columns, with a message, rather than creating new versions.
  • at argument to lifeexp() can now be a vector with length > 1. In this case, lifeexp() calculates life expectancy for each value (within each combination of the ‘by’ variables, if present.)
  • Added n_core argument to lifetab() and lifeexp(). Setting n_core to a value greater than 1 triggers parallel processing.
  • Added closed argument to check_age(), to check whether the oldest age group is closed.
  • Added function tfr() for calculating total fertility rates.
  • Extended vignette.

Bug fixes

  • combine_age() previously not working properly if "to" is "five", and lower limit of youngest age group in x not divisible by 5.
  • ex_to_lifetab_brass() previously assumed, without checking that age groups were correctly ordered. ex_to_lifetab_brass() now automatically reorders them.

poputils 0.3.3

CRAN release: 2024-09-14

Bug fixes

  • Previously calling lifetab() with value supplied for qx created a duplicate qx column in the result. The extra column has been removed.

Interface

  • Added at argument to lifeexp().
  • Removed mx column from output of lifetab() when calculated from mx (to be consistent with behaviour of lifetab() when calculated from qx.)

New functions

Internal

  • Removed stop(gettextf( style error messages, except in functions involving age (which will be superceded by package agetime.

poputils 0.3.2

Internal

  • Removed all uses of rvec::rvec.is.numeric(), in preparation for removing from rvec package.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed bug in combine_age(). Previously giving wrong answers when last age group was closed.

poputils 0.3.1

CRAN release: 2024-06-12

Bug fixes

  • Fixed “lifetab.cpp:455:16: runtime error: inf is outside the range of representable values of type ‘int’” - changed nx from int to double

poputils 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2024-05-24

  • Released on to CRAN

poputils 0.2.0

  • Coverage of tests 100 percent