Depends what you want to do. Forming population projection matrices and
doing the eigenanalysis to work out population growth rates, stable stage
distributions, elasticities etc. is simple enough. Do you really need a
package to do that? See ?eigen. What would you like to see in a population
projection package?
Cheers,
Simon.
At 06:44 AM 27/10/2005, you wrote:>--- "Rodriguez, Orlando" <orlando.rodriguez at uconn.edu>
wrote:
> > Is there an R Package for Population Projections?
> >
> > Orlando J. Rodriguez
> > The Center for Population Research
> > University of Connecticut
> > Unit 2068
> > 344 Mansfield Road
> > Storrs, CT 06269-2068
> > (860)486-9269
> > (860)486-6356 (f)
> > http://popcenter.uconn.edu
> >
>
>Visit Dept of Demography at UC Berkeley courses page:
>http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/courses/
>
>They use R and provide some code.
>Tomas
>
>
>Tomas Aragon, MD, DrPH
>Tel: 510-847-9139 (mobile)
>URL: http://www.idready.org
>
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