Provides methods for spatial and spatio-temporal smoothing of demographic and health indicators using survey data, with particular focus on estimating and projecting under-five mortality rates, described in Mercer et al. (2015) <doi:10.1214/15-AOAS872>, Li et al. (2019) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210645>, Wu et al. (DHS Spatial Analysis Reports No. 21, 2021), and Li et al. (2023) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2007.05117>. 
| Version: | 2.0.0 | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5) | 
| Imports: | survey, stats, spdep, survival, ggplot2, scales, utils, Matrix, reshape2, viridis, sp, sf, shadowtext, ggridges, methods, data.table, RColorBrewer, grDevices, fields, terra, haven, lifecycle | 
| Suggests: | INLA, sn, knitr, rmarkdown, readstata13, patchwork, rdhs, R.rsp, sae, dplyr, tidyr, raster, fmesher, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) | 
| Published: | 2025-01-07 | 
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.SUMMER | 
| Author: | Zehang R Li [cre, aut],
  Bryan D Martin [aut],
  Yuan Hsiao [aut],
  Jessica Godwin [aut],
  John Paige [aut],
  Peter Gao [aut],
  Jon Wakefield [aut],
  Samuel J Clark [aut],
  Geir-Arne Fuglstad [aut],
  Andrea Riebler [aut] | 
| Maintainer: | Zehang R Li  <lizehang at gmail.com> | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/richardli/SUMMER/issues | 
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] | 
| URL: | https://github.com/richardli/SUMMER,
https://richardli.github.io/SUMMER/ | 
| NeedsCompilation: | no | 
| Additional_repositories: | https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/testing/ | 
| Materials: | README, NEWS | 
| In views: | OfficialStatistics | 
| CRAN checks: | SUMMER results |