Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

poputils 0.4.1

• 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

• Added function check_n().
• Added function q0_to_m0().
• Added function rr3().
• Added function trim_01().

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• Removed stop(gettextf( style error messages, except in functions involving age (which will be superceded by package agetime.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