R4GoodPersonalFinances (version 1.2.0)

read_hmd_life_tables: Reading HMD life tables

Description

Reading HMD life tables

Usage

read_hmd_life_tables(
  path = getwd(),
  files = c("mltper_1x1.txt", "fltper_1x1.txt", "bltper_1x1.txt")
)

Value

A data frame containing mortality data with columns:

sex

Character - sex ('male', 'female', or 'both')

year

Integer - the year of the data

age

Integer - age

mortality_rate

Numeric - mortality rate

life_expectancy

Numeric - life expectancy

Arguments

path

A character. Path to the folder with life tables.

files

A character. Names of files with life tables.

References

HMD. Human Mortality Database. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany), University of California, Berkeley (USA), and French Institute for Demographic Studies (France). Available at www.mortality.org

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Download 'txt' files 
# ("mltper_1x1.txt", "fltper_1x1.txt", "bltper_1x1.txt") 
# for a given country to the working directory
# from https://www.mortality.org after registration.

read_hmd_life_tables(path = getwd())
}