vital: Tidy Analysis Tools for Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data

Analysing vital statistics based on tools consistent with the tidyverse. Tools are provided for data visualization, life table calculations, computing net migration numbers, Lee-Carter modelling; functional data modelling and forecasting.

Version: 2.0.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cobs, distributional, dplyr, fable, fabletools (≥ 0.3.3), ggplot2, HMDHFDplus (≥ 2.0.8), mgcv, MortalityLaws, patchwork, purrr, rlang, StMoMo, tibble, tidyr, tidyselect, tsibble, vctrs
Suggests: demography, feasts, future, future.apply, knitr, progressr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-10-05
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.vital
Author: Rob Hyndman ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Sixian Tang ORCID iD [aut], Miles McBain ORCID iD [ctb], Mitchell O'Hara-Wild ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Rob Hyndman <Rob.Hyndman at monash.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/robjhyndman/vital/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://pkg.robjhyndman.com/vital/, https://github.com/robjhyndman/vital
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: vital results

Documentation:

Reference manual: vital.html , vital.pdf
Vignettes: Introduction to the vital package (source, R code)
Stochastic population forecasting (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: vital_2.0.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: vital_2.0.1.zip, r-release: vital_2.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: vital_2.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): vital_2.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): vital_2.0.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): vital_2.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): vital_2.0.1.tgz
Old sources: vital archive

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