oxforddemsci/lemur

R library for the Life Expectancy Monitoring Tool

{lemur} - Life expectancy monitor upscaled in R

R package and Shiny application

The life expectancy monitoring tool allows the user to selected mortality changes over the entire lifespan or at specific ages, as well as for overall mortality or for specific causes of death. For example, how would life expectancy look if cardiovascular mortality were to be reduced by 50%? Or how would life expectancy look if infant mortality was eliminated? The tool facilitates assessing changes and comparisons in life expectancy under those selected scenarios of mortality change. Furthermore, the tool lets the user compare cause-of-death profiles and life expectancies across time, countries and sexes.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mpascariu/lemur")

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to launch the monitor in your browser:

lemur::run_app()

All the simulations done in the monitor can be executed using the R syntax directly in the R/Rstudio console. See the available data object data_gbd2019_cod, data_gbd2019_lt or the help pages of relevant functions like decompose_by_cod(), modify_life_table() and the related plot functions.

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