Spatio-Temporal Under-Five Mortality Methods for Estimation

Provides methods for estimating, projecting, and plotting spatio-temporal under-five mortality rates, described in Mercer et al. (2015) and Li et al. (2019) .

Spatio-temporal Under-five Mortality Models of Estimation in R

Installation - CRAN

The package is now available on CRAN. The easiest way to downlaod is to install directly using the code below.

install.packages("SUMMER")

Installation - Development Version

To download the development version of the SUMMER package, use the code below.

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("bryandmartin/SUMMER")

Development Version Updates

The CRAN version of the package is currently up to date.

Usage

To see example usage of all main functions, build the package vignette. Note that the vignette will take a few minutes to compile.

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("bryandmartin/SUMMER", build_vignettes = TRUE)
# Use this to view the vignette in the SUMMER HTML help
help(package = "SUMMER", help_type = "html")
# Use this to view the vignette as an isolated HTML file
utils::browseVignettes(package = "SUMMER")

Bug Reports / Change Requests

If you encounter a bug or would like make a change request, please file it as an issue here.