The actuar project is a package of Actuarial Science functions for the R statistical system.

The name of the package is a (not necessarily funny) word play on the pronunciation of “actu-R” and also mimics the german word for actuary, “Aktuar”.

The package is maintained by Vincent Goulet. See also section People for a list of contributors.

Current status

The project was launched in July 2005 and is under active development.

The latest official release is 0.9-7 and is available from CRAN. This version fixes a rather important bug in the estimation of structure parameters for multi-levels hierarchical models. For details, see the NEWS file. Fields of Actuarial Science presently covered are loss distributions modeling, simulation of compound hierarchical models, risk theory (including ruin theory) and credibility theory. See also the Documentation section.

The development version is available in source code only from the Subversion repository.

Call for collaboration

The actuar project is looking for collaborators to contribute code in fields of Actuarial Science presently not covered by the package, for improvements to the existing code or any form of collaboration (debugging, translations, etc.) Interested parties are invited to contact Vincent Goulet.