| horiuchi | Numeric Approximation of Continuous Decomposition | 
| LTabr | an abridged lifetable based on M(x) | 
| ltre | Caswell's LTRE method of decomposition | 
| Mxc1 | Year 2002 death rates by cause for US males in abridged age classes | 
| Mxc2 | Year 2002 death rates by cause for England and Wales males in abridged age classes | 
| Mxc2e0abr | get life expectancy at birth from an (abridged)age-cause matrix | 
| Mxc2e0abrvec | get life expectancy at birth from the vec of an age-cause matrix | 
| R0vec | R0vec Calculates net reproduction, R0, according to a given set of rates Lx,fx and a fixed proportion female of births, 'pfem'. | 
| rates1 | Fake data generated for horiuchi example. | 
| rates2 | Fake data generated for horiuchi example. | 
| stepwise_replacement | implementation of the decomposition algorithm of stepwise replacement |