R Observatory: Metrics for MortCast version 2.8-0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MortCast

2.8-0Package record

Estimation and Projection of Age-Specific Mortality Rates

1packages depend

8.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hana SevcikovaCRAN page ↗

Age-specific mortality rates are estimated and projected using the Kannisto, Lee-Carter and related methods as described in Sevcikova et al. (2016) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26603-9_15.

Install

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

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

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

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-mortcast

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-MortCast

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-MortCast

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.8-0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 19includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 95%

How these are measured

Downloads

8.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,946 · ~24/day · ~736/mo

Releases R versions

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52130 days

1.4K90 days

8.8K1 year

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Also on428 r2u7 autocran82 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MortCast adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 10 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, wpp2017 4.5 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0wpp2017

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Hana Sevcikova

Maintainer since 1.0-1 (2017), Author

Patrick Gerland

Author

Nan Li

Author

Releases (15)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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copmd, life.table, mlt, mltj, mortcast.blend, pmd
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Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-30
Total releases: 15 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 2.7 MB / 5 files
Download size: 2.8 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MortCast")

Format

Sevcikova, H., Gerland, P., & Li, N. (2024). MortCast: Estimation and Projection of Age-Specific Mortality Rates (Version 2.8-0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MortCast

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MortCast version 2.8-0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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