version 2.1.1

- privide anchors to all documented external \links{};

Author: mpascariu

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: MortalityLaws
 Type: Package
 Title: Parametric Mortality Models, Life Tables and HMD
-Version: 2.1.0
+Version: 2.1.1
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Marius D.", "Pascariu", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), email = "mpascariu@outlook.com", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2568-6489")),
   person("Vladimir", "Canudas-Romo", role = "ctb"))
@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@ Suggests:
 URL: https://github.com/mpascariu/MortalityLaws
 BugReports: https://github.com/mpascariu/MortalityLaws/issues
 Encoding: UTF-8
-RoxygenNote: 7.3.0
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
 VignetteBuilder: knitr

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+version 2.1.1
+- privide anchors to all documented external \links{};
+
+version 2.1.0
+- replace several stop errors with messages so the failure to connect to databases (for whatever reason) results in a gracefull ending of the process and to avoid triggering CRAN random error;
+
 version 2.0.3
 - Change interaction with external resources and update documentation;
 

R/MortalityLaw_main.R

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# -------------------------------------------------------------- #
-# Author: Marius D. PASCARIU
-# Last Update: Sun Jan 14 22:27:43 2024
-# -------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# ------------------------------------------------- #
+# Author: Marius D. Pascariu
+# Last update: Wed Apr  2 08:26:21 2025
+# ------------------------------------------------- #
 
 #' Fit Mortality Laws
 #'
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #'  subject to box constraints for complicated functions. For details check
 #'  \code{\link{nlminb}};
 #'  \item Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm: damped least-squares method.
-#'  For details check \code{\link{nls.lm}}.
+#'  For details check \code{\link[minpack.lm]{nls.lm}}.
 #' }
 #' @inheritParams LifeTable
 #' @param law The name of the mortality law/model to be used. e.g.

R/availableHMD.R

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# -------------------------------------------------------------- #
-# Author: Marius D. PASCARIU
-# Last Update: Fri Jul 21 13:58:55 2023
-# -------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# ------------------------------------------------- #
+# Author: Marius D. Pascariu
+# Last update: Wed Apr  2 08:29:58 2025
+# ------------------------------------------------- #
 
 #' Check Data Availability in HMD
 #'
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ availableHMD <- function(link = "https://www.mortality.org/Data/DataAvailability
       webpage <- read_html(response)
 
       # Extract the table from the webpage
-      table_data <- webpage |>
-        html_table(fill = TRUE)
+      table_data <- html_table(webpage, fill = TRUE)
 
       # from the list of tables extracted above the table of interest is the first one:
       if (length(table_data) > 0) {