The goal of demor is to provide you with:
- the most basic functions for demographic analysis
- some data
Now, demor provides the ability to download Russian
mortality/fertility data from Rosbris
(РосБРиС) in a
user-friendly format. It also includes functions for building life
tables, age and cause decompositions, fitting Lee-Carter model,
calculating years of life lost, and more.
You can install the development version of demor from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("vadvu/demor")Examples of how to use demor can be found on its
website in the Get
started section. The
detailed information about each function can be found in
this section of
the website.
The package is also presented in this paper (in Russ.).
If you use the package in your research, please, cite this paper (in Russ.) where the package is presented:
English citation: Ustyuzhanin V. (2025). demor: R package for basic and advanced methods of demographic analysis. Demographic Review, 12(4), 100-122. https://doi.org/10.17323/demreview.v12i4.30415
Russian citation: Устюжанин В.В. (2025). demor: пакет в R для базовых и продвинутых методов демографического анализа. Демографическое обозрение, 12(4), 100-122. https://doi.org/10.17323/demreview.v12i4.30415
If you have any comments on the demor (suggestions for development,
bug fixes, etc.), please, feel free to contact me via email:
vvustiuzhanin@yandex.ru
This package is developed with support by the Russian Science Foundation (Project No 24-18-00650).
Этот пакет подготовлен при поддержке Российского научного фонда (проект №24-18-00650).