Date: 2021-01-30
Thercbayespackage is an R package that contains functions to calculate andestimate Rogers-Castro migration age schedules in a Bayesianframework.
rcbayes version 0.3.0 is now available onCRAN.
rcbayes is a spin-off package that is called on byDemoTools,but can also be used as a stand-alone package.DemoTools isan R package that contains simple functions often used in demographicanalysis.
This project, including both thercbayes andDemoTools packages, is commissioned by theUN PopulationDivision and financed by theBill and Melinda GatesFoundation as part of theMakingFamily Planning Count project.rcbayes was created incollaboration withMonicaAlexander andTim Riffe.This work is licensed under the MIT License.
To get started withrcbayes we recommend taking a lookat the vignetteRogersCastro Migration Models with rcbayes.
You can load thercbayes package as follows:
# install.packages("rcbayes")library(rcbayes)Note that this package requiresrstan. If you haveissues installingrstan additional information is availablehere, as well asfrom a general Google search.
For additional tips in getting models to converge, we recommendtaking a look at the vignetteModelConvergence With mig_estimate_rc.
To citercbayes in publications, please use:
Alexander M, Yeung J, and Riffe T. (2021) rcbayes: An R package oftools for Bayesian Rogers-Castro Migration Age Schedules URL:https://github.com/jessieyeung/rcbayes/.
@Misc{rcbayes, Title = {rcbayes: {A}n {R} package for Bayesian Rogers-Castro Migration Age Schedules}, Author = {Alexander, M and Yeung, J and Riffe, T}, Year = {2021}, note = {URL:~\url{https://github.com/jessieyeung/rcbayes/}}}