R Observatory: Metrics for MortalityGaps version 1.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MortalityGaps

1.0.7Package record

The Double-Gap Life Expectancy Forecasting Model

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

98.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marius D. PascariuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Life expectancy is highly correlated over time among countries and between males and females. These associations can be used to improve forecasts. Here we have implemented a method for forecasting female life expectancy based on analysis of the gap between female life expectancy in a country compared with the record level of female life expectancy in the world. Second, to forecast male life expectancy, the gap between male life expectancy and female life expectancy in a country is analysed. We named this method the Double-Gap model. For a detailed description of the method see Pascariu et al. (2018). doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2017.09.011.

Changes in 1.0.7

make it a better citizen: rearrange files, namespace, dependencies, links.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("MortalityGaps", 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("mpascariu/MortalityGaps")

Development version from mpascariu/MortalityGaps. 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-mortalitygaps

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-MortalityGaps

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-MortalityGaps

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: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-30
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.7

READMEYes · 278 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.7Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 19 (14 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 33%1 run in a plain check · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 16% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (1)

Vignette --- MortalityGaps R package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,208 · ~7/day · ~226/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25730 days

70890 days

2.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

mpascariu/mortalitygaps ↗Account: mpascariu

3Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

51Commits

3Commit identities

mortality-forecastingdemographyforecasting-life-expectancylongevity

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 51 commits · Last activity 2025-04-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-09-09 · 22026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mpascariu/mortalitygaps on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (4)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)AppVeyor

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MortalityGaps adds 43 packages (23 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (5)

forecastMASScrch pbapply (>= 1.3)Rdpack

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

MortalityLaws knitr rmarkdown (>= 1.10)testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

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People & History

People (1)

Marius D. Pascariu

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-20
Total releases: 2 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 15 KB / 1 file
Download size: 317 KB

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citation("MortalityGaps")

Format

Pascariu, M. D. (2025). MortalityGaps: The Double-Gap Life Expectancy Forecasting Model (Version 1.0.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MortalityGaps

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MortalityGaps version 1.0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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