VirtualPop: Simulation of Populations by Sampling Waiting-Time Distributions

Constructs a virtual population from fertility and mortality rates for any country, calendar year and birth cohort in the Human Mortality Database <https://www.mortality.org> and the Human Fertility Database <https://www.humanfertility.org>. Fertility histories are simulated for every individual and their offspring, producing a multi-generation virtual population.

Version: 2.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.3.0)
Imports: msm, HMDHFDplus
Suggests: knitr, kableExtra, ggplot2, foreign, lubridate, xml2, eha, survival, survminer, rmarkdown
Published: 2025-04-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.VirtualPop
Author: Frans Willekens ORCID iD [aut, cre], Tim Riffe ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Frans Willekens <willekens at nidi.nl>
BugReports: https://github.com/willekens/VirtualPop/issues
License: GPL-2
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: VirtualPop results

Documentation:

Reference manual: VirtualPop.html , VirtualPop.pdf
Vignettes: Simulation of life histories (source, R code)
Sampling Piecewise-Exponential Waiting Time Distributions (source, R code)
VirtualPop: Simulation of individual lifespans and fertility careers (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: VirtualPop_2.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: VirtualPop_2.1.0.zip, r-release: VirtualPop_2.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: VirtualPop_2.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): VirtualPop_2.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): VirtualPop_2.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): VirtualPop_2.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): VirtualPop_2.1.0.tgz
Old sources: VirtualPop archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: Families

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