12th KOSTAT-UNFPA Summer Seminar on Population

Workshop 1 "R in Demography"

23 - 27 June, 2025 at the Statistics Human Resources Development Institute of KOSTAT in Daejeon, South Korea. For each session, a handout was prepared in advance (files *_handout.pdf and the markdown file where it was designed *_handout.Rmd). Sessions began with a presentation (files *_presentation.pdf and code for figures *_pres_prep.R). Live coding and notes from sessions is given in files *_session.Rmd. There is material covered in sessions that was not given in the handouts, and there is also material covered in handouts that was not given in the sessions.

Participants were also allowed to submit data to another repository https://github.com/SSP-Intpopstat/SSP12_Workshop-1 and so a Drive folder. These were integrated into sessions to the extent possible.

Contents

• Data/

• 01 (Monday, 23 June 2025) "Basic Demographic Data and Concepts"

  1. 01_handout (.Rmd, .pdf)
  2. 01_presentation.pdf
  3. 01_pres_prep.R
  4. 01_session.Rmd

• 02 (Tuesday, 24 June 2025) "Mortality and Fertility"

  1. 02_handout (.Rmd, .pdf)
  2. 02_presentation.pdf
  3. 02_pres_prep.R
  4. 02_session.Rmd

• 03 (Wednesday, 25 June 2025) "Population Structure"

  1. 03_handout (.Rmd, .pdf)
  2. 03_presentation.pdf
  3. 03_pres_prep.R
  4. 03_session.Rmd

• 04 (Thursday, 26 June 2025) "Population Growth"

  1. 04_handout (.Rmd, .pdf)
  2. 04_presentation.pdf
  3. 04_pres_prep.R
  4. 04_session.Rmd

• 05 (Friday, 27 June 2025) "Projection"

  1. 05_handout (.Rmd, .pdf)
  2. 05_presentation.pdf
  3. 05_pres_prep.R
  4. 05_session.Rmd

Things to install

• Rstudio Desktop, from the daily builds [https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/preview/](https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/preview/) Installing this will automatically install the latest R version, which we need.

• Windows users: RTools will be required, please install it: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/: if you're having trouble, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXWLR2DGgI8&t=34s

• Mac users: Xquartz may be required, please install it: https://www.xquartz.org/

optional, but recommended to install:

• git https://git-scm.com/downloadshttps://git-scm.com/downloads No need for a separate git program. We'll just use it from Rstudio a bit.
• latex if you don't have it, you can straight from R using the tinytex package.

  library(tinytex)
  install_tinytex()
  

Further resources:

( how to do a full version upgrade, including all packages)

• Update R, R packages and R studio on different platforms https://bootstrappers.umassmed.edu/bootstrappers-courses/courses/rCourse/Additional_Resources/Updating_R.html