SUMMER
Small-Area-Estimation Unit/Area Models and Methods for Estimation in R
Provides methods for spatial and spatio-temporal smoothing of demographic and health indicators using survey data, with particular focus on estimating and projecting under-five mortality rates, described in Mercer et al. (2015)
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 helphelp(package = "SUMMER", help_type = "html")# Use this to view the vignette as an isolated HTML fileutils::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.