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Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

exmort 0.1.1

  • Added three vignettes covering installation and launch, input templates and data preparation, and baseline models and result interpretation.
  • Added a pkgdown documentation website, linked from the package metadata and README, with a function reference and searchable articles.
  • Added a package hex logo showing expected and observed mortality, used in the README, website and vignettes.
  • Clarified that baseline models are fitted to all periods outside the supplied events, including any non-event periods after an event.

exmort 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2026-07-30

  • First release: the WHO WPRO All-Cause and Excess Mortality Calculator packaged as an R package.
  • run_app() launches the bundled Shiny application from a temporary directory.
  • Includes seven baseline models (historical average, negative binomial, quasi-Poisson, zero-inflated Poisson, ARIMA/SARIMA, GAM spline and the Karlinsky–Kobak model), event annotation, best-fit AIC comparison, and HTML / Word / PDF report generation.
  • Application code is sourced into a private environment instead of the global environment, and the app no longer leaves options(digits) or the LC_TIME locale changed after a session ends.
  • Adds a testthat suite covering the ISO year-week date helpers, the model date index and the upload validators.