R Observatory: Metrics for demography version 2.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

demography

2.0.1Package record

Forecasting Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data

4packages dependsuggested by 5

50.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rob HyndmanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Functions for demographic analysis including lifetable calculations; Lee-Carter modelling; functional data analysis of mortality rates, fertility rates, net migration numbers; and stochastic population forecasting.

Changes in 2.0.1

Updated HMDHFDplus dependency to v2.08+

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("demography", 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("robjhyndman/demography")

Development version from robjhyndman/demography. 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-demography

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-demography

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-demography

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: 5.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-10

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.1

READMEYes · 87 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 37 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 76%26 run in a plain check · 8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 19%

How these are measured

Downloads

50.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,896 · ~138/day · ~4.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.6K30 days

10.4K90 days

50.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on245 r2u13 autocran213 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

robjhyndman/demography ↗Account: robjhyndman

78Stars

26Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

128Commits

6Commit identities

demographyrcranforecastingactuarial

128 commits · Last activity 2025-10-06 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.0.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.0.1 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-18 · 742026-07-07 · 78

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/robjhyndman/demography on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing demography adds 147 packages (84 with compiled code, 101 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.4forecast

Imports (6)

ftsa rainbow cobsmgcvstrucchange HMDHFDplus

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 3

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

RcmdrPlugin.RiskDemo SEERaBomb popstudy NNMoMo

Suggests, most downloaded first

Epi lifecontingencies StMoMo stR vital

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Rob Hyndman

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 2.0

R Core Team

Contributor · added in 2.0

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor · added in 1.13

Maintainer since 1.0 (2010)

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Rob J Hyndman

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.22

R Core Team.

no longer listed · 1.13 to 1.14

John Maindonald.

no longer listed · 1.15 to 1.22

Releases (24)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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removed 19 exports
fitted.fdm, fitted.lca, forecast.fdm, forecast.lca, forecast.fdmpr, isfe.demogdata, mean.demogdata, median.demogdata, plot.demogdata, plot.errorfdm, plot.lifetable, residuals.fdm, residuals.lca, simulate.fmforecast, simulate.fmforecast2, models.fmforecast, models.fmforecast2, update.fmforecast, update.fmforecast2
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2010-08-12
Total releases: 24 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Bundled data: 2.7 MB / 4 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("demography")

Format

Hyndman, R., R Core Team, Booth, H., Maindonald, J., Tickle, L., & Wood, S. (2025). demography: Forecasting Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data (Version 2.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.demography

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for demography version 2.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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