'firstyearpop' for `pop.sim` in `demography` package

Question

I'm using R demography package to study Mauritian population. However, I'm having some problem with pop.sim function as I can't figure out how the mid year population must be entered? Can anyone give me an example please?

Answer 1

The help file is rather brief (sorry about that). The first year population should be part of a demogdata object. The example at the end of the help page on pop.sim should help. It requires the addb package which is available from http://robjhyndman.com/software/addb/.