Date: 2021-01-30

The rcbayes package is an R package that contains functions to calculate and estimate Rogers-Castro migration age schedules in a Bayesian framework.

rcbayes version 0.3.0 is now available on CRAN.

rcbayes is a spin-off package that is called on by DemoTools, but can also be used as a stand-alone package. DemoTools is an R package that contains simple functions often used in demographic analysis.

This project, including both the rcbayes and DemoTools packages, is commissioned by the UN Population Division and financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Making Family Planning Count project. rcbayes was created in collaboration with Monica Alexander and Tim Riffe. This work is licensed under the MIT License.

To get started with rcbayes we recommend taking a look at the vignette Rogers Castro Migration Models with rcbayes.

You can load the rcbayes package as follows:

# install.packages("rcbayes")
library(rcbayes)

Note that this package requires rstan. If you have issues installing rstan additional information is available here, as well as from a general Google search.

For additional tips in getting models to converge, we recommend taking a look at the vignette Model Convergence With mig_estimate_rc.

To cite rcbayes in publications, please use:

Alexander M, Yeung J, and Riffe T. (2021) rcbayes: An R package of tools 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/}}
}