R Observatory: Metrics for HMDHFDplus version 2.0.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

HMDHFDplus

2.0.8

Read Human Mortality Database and Human Fertility Database Data from the Web

5packages depend

56.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Tim RiffeFirst published 2015-09-2010 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Utilities for reading data from the Human Mortality Database (https://www.mortality.org), Human Fertility Database (https://www.humanfertility.org), and similar databases from the web or locally into an R session as data.frame objects. These are the two most widely used sources of demographic data to study basic demographic change, trends, and develop new demographic methods. Other supported databases at this time include the Human Fertility Collection (https://www.fertilitydata.org), The Japanese Mortality Database (https://www.ipss.go.jp/p-toukei/JMD/index-en.html), and the Canadian Human Mortality Database (http://www.bdlc.umontreal.ca/chmd/). Arguments and data are standardized.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("HMDHFDplus", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("timriffe/HMDHFDplus")

Development version from timriffe/HMDHFDplus. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-hmdhfdplus

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-HMDHFDplus

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-HMDHFDplus

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 38%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

56.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,097 · ~155/day · ~4.7K/mo

Releases R versions

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56.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ timriffe/hmdhfdplus

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0Releases

22Commits

2Contributors

22 commits · Last activity 2026-05-07

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/timriffe/hmdhfdplus on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (10)

httr rvest dplyr janitor lubridate readr stringr tidyr rlang tidyselect

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

RCurl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

4indirect

VirtualPop demography vital LexisPlotR psm3mkv

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Tim Riffe

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Tim Riffe

Author, Maintainer

Carl Boe

Author

Jason Hilton

Author · added in 1.9.1

Contributors (3)

Josh Goldstein

Contributor

Stephen Holzman

Contributor · added in 1.9.1

Sam Hyun Yoo

Contributor · added in 2.0.6

Package Timeline

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-09-20
Total releases: 10 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 24 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Riffe, T., Boe, C., Goldstein, J., Hilton, J., Holzman, S., & Hyun Yoo, S. (2025). HMDHFDplus: Read Human Mortality Database and Human Fertility Database Data from the Web (Version 2.0.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.HMDHFDplus

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for HMDHFDplus version 2.0.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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