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 [aut, cre], Tim Riffe [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:

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