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Generate country-level demography data

Source: R/generate_demography.R
generate_demography.Rd

Generate the country-level demography data used by diseasy from the U.S. Census Bureau International Database.

Usage

generate_demography(
  regions = NULL,
  year = 2020L,
  idb_zip = "https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/data/idb/dataset/idbzip.zip"
)

Arguments

regions

(character())
The geographic regions of interest. If NULL, all regions are returned.

year

(integer(1))
The year to keep from the source data.

idb_zip

(character(1))
URL or file path to the U.S. Census Bureau IDB zip file.

Value

A data.frame with columns region, age, and population.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
demography <- generate_demography(regions = c("DK", "FI", "IS", "NO", "SE"))
} # }