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lifecontingencies

Financial and Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingencies

v1.4.4 · Nov 27, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Classes and methods that allow the user to manage life table, actuarial tables (also multiple decrements tables). Moreover, functions to easily perform demographic, financial and actuarial mathematics on life contingencies insurances calculations are contained therein. See Spedicato (2013) <doi:10.18637/jss.v055.i10>.

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Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘an_introduction_to_lifecontingencies_package.Rnw’ using Sweave
Package:  lifecontingencies
Authors:  Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0315-8888>),
  Christophe Dutang [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6732-1501>),
  Reinhold Kainhofer [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7895-1311>),
  Kevin J Owens [ctb],
  Ernesto Schirmacher [ctb],
  Gian Paolo Clemente [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6795-4595>),
  Ivan Williams [ctb]
Version:  1.4.4
Date:     2025-11-27 22:40:02 UTC
BugReport: https://github.com/spedygiorgio/lifecontingencies/issues

Loading required package: markovchain
Loading required package: Matrix
Package:  markovchain
Version:  0.10.0
Date:     2024-11-14 00:00:02 UTC
BugReport: https://github.com/spedygiorgio/markovchain/issues

Loading required package: parallel
Error: processing vignette 'an_introduction_to_lifecontingencies_package.Rnw' 
...[truncated]...
                                   
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l.125 ... Is the file properly installed? A: No!}}
                                                  
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
--- failed re-building ‘mortality_projection.Rnw’

--- re-building ‘PensionPlanVal.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
2025-12-01 09:57:03.131 R[21523:374328] XType: Using static font registry.
--- finished re-building ‘PensionPlanVal.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘compute-detail.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
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--- re-building ‘pensionfunding.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
2025-12-01 09:57:05.899 R[21801:375019] XType: Using static font registry.
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SUMMARY: processing the following files failed:
  ‘an_introduction_to_lifecontingencies_package.Rnw’
  ‘mortality_projection.Rnw’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
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re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘an_introduction_to_lifecontingencies_package.Rnw’ using Sweave
Package:  lifecontingencies
Authors:  Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0315-8888>),
  Christophe Dutang [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6732-1501>),
  Reinhold Kainhofer [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7895-1311>),
  Kevin J Owens [ctb],
  Ernesto Schirmacher [ctb],
  Gian Paolo Clemente [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6795-4595>),
  Ivan Williams [ctb]
Version:  1.4.4
Date:     2025-11-27 22:40:02 UTC
BugReport: https://github.com/spedygiorgio/lifecontingencies/issues

Loading required package: markovchain
Loading required package: Matrix
Package:  markovchain
Version:  0.10.0
Date:     2024-11-14 00:00:02 UTC
BugReport: https://github.com/spedygiorgio/markovchain/issues

Loading required package: parallel
Error: processing vignette 'an_introduction_to_lifecontingencies_package.Rnw' 
...[truncated]...
                                 
! Emergency stop.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.125 ... Is the file properly installed? A: No!}}
                                                  
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
--- failed re-building ‘mortality_projection.Rnw’

--- re-building ‘PensionPlanVal.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
2025-12-01 10:27:53.317 R[79317:1195334] XType: Using static font registry.
--- finished re-building ‘PensionPlanVal.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘compute-detail.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘compute-detail.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘pensionfunding.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
2025-12-01 10:27:56.128 R[80116:1196779] XType: Using static font registry.
--- finished re-building ‘pensionfunding.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following files failed:
  ‘an_introduction_to_lifecontingencies_package.Rnw’
  ‘mortality_projection.Rnw’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

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WARNING r-release-macos-arm64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘an_introduction_to_lifecontingencies_package.Rnw’ using Sweave
Package:  lifecontingencies
Authors:  Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0315-8888>),
  Chri
...[truncated]...
atic font registry.
--- finished re-building ‘pensionfunding.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following files failed:
  ‘an_introduction_to_lifecontingencies_package.Rnw’
  ‘mortality_projection.Rnw’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
WARNING r-oldrel-macos-arm64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘an_introduction_to_lifecontingencies_package.Rnw’ using Sweave
Package:  lifecontingencies
Authors:  Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0315-8888>),
  Chri
...[truncated]...
atic font registry.
--- finished re-building ‘pensionfunding.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following files failed:
  ‘an_introduction_to_lifecontingencies_package.Rnw’
  ‘mortality_projection.Rnw’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies markovchain Rcpp lifecontingencies

Version History

new 1.4.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.4.4 ← 1.4.3 diff Nov 26, 2025
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updated 1.1.10 ← 1.1.9 diff Sep 30, 2015