readHFD

This calls <code><a href="/link/read.table()?package=HMDHFDplus&version=2.0.6" data-mini-rdoc="HMDHFDplus::read.table()">read.table()</a></code> with all the necessary defaults to avoid annoying surprises. The Age column is also stripped of <code>"-"</code> and <code>"+"</code> and converted to integer, and a logical indicator column called <code>OpenInterval</code> is added to show where these were located. Output is invisibly returned, so you must assign it to take a look. This is to avoid lengthy console printouts.

Utilities for reading data from the Human Mortality Database (<https://www.mortality.org>), Human Fertility Database (<https://www.humanfertility.org>), and similar databases from the web or locally into an R session as data.frame objects. These are the two most widely used sources of demographic data to study basic demographic change, trends, and develop new demographic methods. Other supported databases at this time include the Human Fertility Collection (<https://www.fertilitydata.org>), The Japanese Mortality Database (<https://www.ipss.go.jp/p-toukei/JMD/index-en.html>), and the Canadian Human Mortality Database (<http://www.bdlc.umontreal.ca/chmd/>). Arguments and data are standardized.

Tim Riffe

HMDHFDplus

Read Human Mortality Database and Human Fertility Database Data
from the Web

Carl Boe

Jason Hilton

Josh Goldstein

Stephen Holzman

Sam Hyun Yoo

readHFD function

<dl><dt>filepath</dt>
<dd>path or connection to the HFD text file, including .txt suffix.</dd>
<dt>fixup</dt>
<dd>logical. Should columns be made more user-friendly, e.g., forcing Age to be integer?</dd>
<dt>item</dt>
<dd>character string of the data product code, which is the base file name, but excluding the country code and file extension <code>.txt</code>. For instance, <code>"mabRR"</code> or <code>"tfrVHbo"</code>. This will be passed in, potentially, by the reader.</dd>
<dt>...</dt>
<dd>other arguments passed to <code>read.table</code>, not likely needed.</dd></dl>

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This calls <code><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/utils/read.table.html'>read.table()</a></code> with all the necessary defaults to avoid annoying surprises. The Age column is also stripped of <code>"-"</code> and <code>"+"</code> and converted to integer, and a logical indicator column called <code>OpenInterval</code> is added to show where these were located. Output is invisibly returned, so you must assign it to take a look. This is to avoid lengthy console printouts.

readHFD() reads a standard HFD .txt table as a data.frame — readHFD

<dl>

<dt>filepath</dt>
<dd>path or connection to the HFD text file, including .txt suffix.</dd>


<dt>fixup</dt>
<dd>logical. Should columns be made more user-friendly, e.g., forcing Age to be integer?</dd>


<dt>item</dt>
<dd>character string of the data product code, which is the base file name, but excluding the country code and file extension <code>.txt</code>. For instance, <code>"mabRR"</code> or <code>"tfrVHbo"</code>. This will be passed in, potentially, by the reader.</dd>


<dt>...</dt>
<dd>other arguments passed to <code>read.table</code>, not likely needed.</dd>

</dl>

readHFD: `readHFD()` reads a standard HFD .txt table as a `data.frame`

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