read_hmd_life_tables: Reading HMD life tables

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Reading HMD life tables

Description

Reading HMD life tables

Usage

read_hmd_life_tables(
  path = getwd(),
  files = c("mltper_1x1.txt", "fltper_1x1.txt", "bltper_1x1.txt")
)

Arguments

path	A character. Path to the folder with life tables.
files	A character. Names of files with life tables.

Value

A data frame containing mortality data with columns:

sex	Character - sex ('male', 'female', or 'both')
year	Integer - the year of the data
age	Integer - age
mortality_rate	Numeric - mortality rate
life_expectancy	Numeric - life expectancy

References

HMD. Human Mortality Database. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany), University of California, Berkeley (USA), and French Institute for Demographic Studies (France). Available at www.mortality.org

Examples

## Not run: 
# Download 'txt' files 
# ("mltper_1x1.txt", "fltper_1x1.txt", "bltper_1x1.txt") 
# for a given country to the working directory
# from https://www.mortality.org after registration.

read_hmd_life_tables(path = getwd())

## End(Not run)

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