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HMDHFDplus (version 2.0.8)

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

Description

Utilities for reading data from the Human Mortality Database (), Human Fertility Database (), 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 (), The Japanese Mortality Database (), and the Canadian Human Mortality Database (). Arguments and data are standardized.

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install.packages('HMDHFDplus')

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https://github.com/timriffe/HMDHFDplus

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Tim Riffe

Last Published

October 3rd, 2025

Functions in HMDHFDplus (2.0.8)

readHMDweb a basic HMD data grabber.

read data from the Japan Mortality Database into R

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

read data from the Canadian Human Mortality Database into R

userInput let the user type in a character string

age2int() convert the Age column from standard HMD or HFD tables to integer

getCHMDprovinces

get a named vector of CHMD province codes

internal function for grabbing the date of last update for a given HFD country

internal function for modifying freshly read HMD data in its standard form

getHFDitemavail

List the available data item names for a given HFD country.

HFCparse internal function for modifying freshly read HCD data in its standard form

getHFCcountries

getHFCcountries a function to grab all present country codes used in the Human Fertility Collection

internal function for modifying freshly read HFD data in its standard form

getHMDcountries

internal function for grabbing the HMD country short codes.

getHFDcountries

internal function for grabbing the HFD country short codes.

readHMD() reads a standard HMD .txt table as a data.frame

getHMDitemavail

internal function for grabbing the available data item names for a given country.

read an HFD data file directly from the web as an R data.frame

getJMDprefectures

get a named vector of JMD prefecture codes