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.