Standard tools to estimate, compare and evaluate the predictive power of various mortality forecasting methods. For now this is an experimental package, therefore you can assume that the API will change quite frequently.
You can track and contribute to the development of MortalityForecast on GitHub. To install it:
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Install the release version of
devtoolsfrom CRAN withinstall.packages("devtools"). -
Make sure you have a working development environment.
- Windows: Install Rtools.
- Mac: Install
Xcodefrom the Mac App Store. - Linux: Install a compiler and various development libraries (details vary across different flavors of Linux).
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Install the development version of
MortalityForecast.devtools::install_github("mpascariu/MortalityForecast")
All functions are documented in the standard way, which means that once you load the package using library(MortalityForecast) you can just type ?model.Oeppen to see the help file.
