NEWS.md

In lifecontingencies: Financial and Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingencies

title: "News"

lifecontingencies 1.3.10

• Lowered requirements to 4.1

lifecontingencies 1.3.10

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Fix class calls
• moved to bibentry and fix missing links

Version 1.3.8

• Fixed issues in biblio
• Removed vignette intro due to latex incompatibility

Version 1.3.7

• Mortality projections with StMoMo added
• Added a new vignette on Pension evaluation by Ivan Williams
• Added DOI

Version 1.3.5

• add vectorization of pxt(), qxt(), axn(), Axn()
• start vectorization of axyzn() (devel version)
• Started moving docs in Roxygen

Version 1.3.4

• Fixed issue in Macaulay duration
• Recreated old data in data-raw

Version 1.3.3

• Added geometric discounting clarifications

Version 1.3.2

• changes in Pension Funding Vignette

Version 1.3.1

• removed .sty files as CRAN request
• added unit test on mdt functions
• start deprecating pxyt, qxyt, exyt

Version 1.3

• Added qxt.fromQxprime to get decrement from ASDT decrements
• Updated vignette on pension funding

Version 1.2.5

• New vignette on pension funding
• add associated single decrement table section
• added function to compute associated single decrement rate from multiple decrement table
• Various fixing

Version 1.2.2

• Added registration of Dynamic libraries
• Revision of vignettes

Version 1.2.1

• Small fixes

Version 1.2

• Added initialize method for actuarialtable and lifetable classes

Version 1.1.14

• Fixed small issue on remove NA for data.frame
• Fixed medium bugs affecting Axyn and Ax (see github issues #1 and #2)

Version 1.1.12

• Cosmethic amendments

Version 1.1.10

• Fixed AExn=1 when n=0
• Fixed pxt with multiple decrements when t=0
• Small changes to vignettes

Version 1.1.6

• Add GitHub repository.
• first usage of Rcpp (hidden code).
• New vignette for a quick introduction to the package.

Version 1.1.5

• Numerical tests vignette replaced with Unit Root testing.
• Replaced incoherencies within the manual on lifetable and actuarialtable method.
• Added rmdt to sample from multiple contingencies object
• Fixed description and namespace

Version 1.1

• Multiple decrements officially introduced in the package (various methods added, as well as a vignette)
• An introductory vignette for multiple decrements

Version 1.0.6

• Changed vignettes removing parallel function to cope with CRAN policies
• Added SoA illustrative service table in data
• Introduced multiple decrements by the mdt class

Version 1.0.5

• Fix an issue with fractional probabilities (Kevin J. Owens)
• Fix an issue with multiple lives random generation functions (Kevin J. Owens).
• Improved mortality vignettes
• life tables can now be exported as markovchainList objects

Version 1.0

• Fix an issue with print method on actuarialtable
• Added reference to JSS Published Paper
• Deeply improved mortality vignette (thanks to Gian Paolo Clemente, co-author)

Version 0.9.8.6

• Add annuities paid in advance / deferred option
• Add functions getLifecontingencyPV and getLifecontingencyXyzPV to obtain Present Value given the age of death.

Version 0.9.8.5

• Fixed axn function.
• Finalized main vignette.

Version 0.9.8

• Improved documentation.
• Add as.numeric method for lifetable and actuarialtable objects.
• Add power argument to APV function to evaluate higher moments.

Version 0.9.7

• Minor changes to documentation

Version 0.9.6

• Add summary method for lifetable and actuarialtable objects
• Improvements and fix in simulation of life contingent insurances
• Add rLifeContingenciesXyz function
• Improvements in the vignette

Version 0.9.5

• ALM section to main vignette was added.
• rLife has been improved.
• Functions to switch from interest to discount and vice - versa have been added.
• Multiple life insurances function now work properly.
• Add function to generate variate from two life contingencies.
• Add French and UK life ta

Version 0.9.3

• Revision to lifecontingencies vignettes to cope with Journal of Statistical Software style.
• Minor changes and bug fixes

Version 0.9.2

• rLifeContingencies has been parallelized
• updated demoIta dataset
• added n-year term insurance function AExn
• final revision of package vignettes

Version 0.9.1

• conventions on parameters made uniform.
• minor changes in the vignettes and functions documentation.

Version 0.9

• adding rLifeContingencies function, to simulate random variates from life contingencies distribution.
• deep revision of vignettes.
• various bug fixed.

Version 0.1.1

• Minor fixes
• Set R required version to 2.14

Version 0.1

• Deep revision of vignettes
• Add increasing annuity function, Iaxn
• Minor fixes

Version 0.0.7

• Added rLife function to simulate random times until deaths
• Improved financial mathematics functions
• Improved documentation and vignettes

Version 0.0.6

• Improved documentation
• Improved financial functions
• Added function to obtain lifetables from raw survival or deaths probabilites

Version 0.0.5

• Added methods for lifecontingencies objects
• improved vignettes (added JSS template).

Version 0.0.4

• Improved documentation
• Added demographic functions
• Added US Social Security life tables.

Version 0.0.3

• Improved documentation
• Add some multiple life functions
• fix a bug in method getOmega

Version 0.0.2

• Specific interest rate can be given directly to the actuarial life contingencies functions that override lifetable one
• Update Axn for fractional ages
• pxn function now allows non integer x
• correct coerce methods to data.frame
• Some minor changes in the documentation

Version 0.0.1

• First version of life contingencies

lifecontingencies documentation built on July 9, 2023, 6:10 p.m.