README.md

In PPgp/wppExplorerBayesMig: Explorer of World Population Prospects with Probabilistic Migration

wppExplorerBayesMig

Shiny-based R package to view data from the PPgp/wpp2015BayesMig package, which is a modified version of the World Population Prospects (WPP) published by the United Nations Population Division (package wpp2015). In this version of the data, uncertainty about migration was taken into account.

Reference:

Azose, J.J., Ševčíková, H., Raftery, A.E. (2016): Probabilistic population projections with migration uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:6460–6465.

To start a session, from R do

library(wppExplorerBayesMig)
wpp.explore()

This will open the interface in your default web browser. To end the session, press the Esc key.

The package also offers various functions to retrieve the WPP indicators in R as data frames. See the help file for ?wpp.indicator.

PPgp/wppExplorerBayesMig documentation built on May 7, 2019, 11:52 p.m.