wppExplorer-package: Explorer of the World Population Prospects
Description
Allows to interactively explore data from the World Population Prospects, contained in packages wpp2008, wpp2010 and wpp2012. It is based on the shiny package.source
The underlying datasets are based on estimates and projections of the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009, 2011, 2013). The probabilistic projections were produced with the method of Raftery et al. (2012).Details
ll{
Package: wppExplorer
Version: 1.6-2
Date: 2015-5-28
Depends: R (>= 3.0.0)
License: GPL (>= 2)
}The main function of the packge is wpp.explore which opens an interactive interface in a web browser. A few helper functions are available for a fast access to the (possibly filtered) data, e.g. wpp.indicator.
The interface can be also accessed online: https://rstudio.stat.washington.edu/shiny/wppExplorer/inst/explore/
References
World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations.
Probabilistic projections: http://esa.un.org/unpd/ppp
A. E. Raftery, N. Li, H. Sevcikova , P. Gerland, G. K. Heilig (2012). Bayesian probabilistic population projections for all countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:13915-13921.
P. Gerland, A. E. Raftery, H. Sevcikova, N. Li, D. Gu, T. Spoorenberg, L. Alkema, B. K. Fosdick, J. L. Chunn, N. Lalic, G. Bay, T. Buettner, G. K. Heilig, J. Wilmoth (2014). World Population Stabilization Unlikely This Century. Science 346:234-237.