| age2int | 'age2int()' convert the Age column from standard HMD or HFD tables to integer |
| extract_HFD_items | Extract names of HFD items from HTML |
| getCHMDprovinces | get a named vector of CHMD province codes |
| getHFCcountries | getHFCcountries a function to grab all present country codes used in the Human Fertility Collection |
| getHFDcountries | internal function for grabbing the HFD country short codes. |
| getHFDdate | internal function for grabbing the date of last update for a given HFD country |
| getHFDitemavail | internal function for grabbing the available data item names for a given country. |
| getHMDcountries | internal function for grabbing the HMD country short codes. |
| getHMDitemavail | internal function for grabbing the available data item names for a given country. |
| getJMDprefectures | get a named vector of JMD prefecture codes |
| HFCparse | HFCparse internal function for modifying freshly read HCD data in its standard form |
| HFDparse | internal function for modifying freshly read HFD data in its standard form |
| HMDparse | internal function for modifying freshly read HMD data in its standard form |
| readCHMDweb | read data from the Canadian Human Mortality Database into R |
| readHFCweb | readHFCweb get HFC data straight from the web into R! |
| readHFD | 'readHFD()' reads a standard HFD .txt table as a 'data.frame' |
| readHFDweb | read an HFD data file directly from the web as an R data.frame |
| readHMD | 'readHMD()' reads a standard HMD .txt table as a 'data.frame' |
| readHMDweb | readHMDweb a basic HMD data grabber. |
| readJMDweb | read data from the Japan Mortality Database into R |
| userInput | userInput let the user type in a character string |