demor

The goal of demor is to provide you with:
1. the most basic functions for demographic analysis
2. some data

Now, demor provides the ability to download Russian mortality/fertility data from Rosbris (РосБРиС) in a user-friendly format. It also includes functions for building life tables, age and cause decompositions, fitting Lee-Carter model, calculating years of life lost, and more.

Installation

You can install the development version of demor from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("vadvu/demor")

Tutorial

Examples of how to use demor can be found on its website in the Get started section. The detailed information about each function can be found in this section of the website.

The package is also presented in this paper (in Russ.).

Suggested Citations

If you use the package in your research, please, cite this paper (in Russ.) where the package is presented:

English citation: Ustyuzhanin V. (2025). demor: R package for basic and advanced methods of demographic analysis. Demographic Review, 12(4), 100-122. https://doi.org/10.17323/demreview.v12i4.30415

Russian citation: Устюжанин В.В. (2025). demor: пакет в R для базовых и продвинутых методов демографического анализа. Демографическое обозрение, 12(4), 100-122. https://doi.org/10.17323/demreview.v12i4.30415

Contact Information

If you have any comments on the demor (suggestions for development, bug fixes, etc.), please, feel free to contact me via email: vvustiuzhanin@yandex.ru

Acknowledgements

This package is developed with support by the Russian Science Foundation (Project No 24-18-00650).

Этот пакет подготовлен при поддержке Российского научного фонда (проект №24-18-00650).