Reading HMD life tables — read_hmd_life_tables • R4GoodPersonalFinances

Reading HMD life tables

Usage

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

Arguments

path: A character. Path to the folder with life tables.
files: A character. Names of files with life tables.

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

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) { # \dontrun{
# 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())
} # }