SimDesign: Structure for Organizing Monte Carlo Simulation Designs

Provides tools to safely and efficiently organize and execute Monte Carlo simulation experiments in R. The package controls the structure and back-end of Monte Carlo simulation experiments by utilizing a generate-analyse-summarise workflow. The workflow safeguards against common simulation coding issues, such as automatically re-simulating non-convergent results, prevents inadvertently overwriting simulation files, catches error and warning messages during execution, and implicitly supports parallel processing. For a pedagogical introduction to the package see Sigal and Chalmers (2016) <doi:10.1080/10691898.2016.1246953>. For a more in-depth overview of the package and its design philosophy see Chalmers and Adkins (2020) <doi:10.20982/tqmp.16.4.p248>.

Version: 2.9
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: foreach, methods, parallel, dplyr, sessioninfo, beepr, pbapply (≥ 1.3-0), RPushbullet, stats
Suggests: knitr, ggplot2, tidyr, purrr, shiny, doMPI, copula, extraDistr, renv, rmarkdown
Published: 2022-08-09
Author: Phil Chalmers ORCID iD [aut, cre], Matthew Sigal [ctb], Ogreden Oguzhan [ctb]
Maintainer: Phil Chalmers <rphilip.chalmers at gmail.com>
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://github.com/philchalmers/SimDesign, https://github.com/philchalmers/SimDesign/wiki
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: SimDesign citation info
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: SimDesign results

Documentation:

Reference manual: SimDesign.pdf
Vignettes: Catching errors
Exporting objects and functions from the workspace
Multiple Analysis Functions
Parallel computing
Saving additional simulation results and state
Introduction to the SimDesign package

Downloads:

Package source: SimDesign_2.9.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: SimDesign_2.9.zip, r-release: SimDesign_2.9.zip, r-oldrel: SimDesign_2.9.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): SimDesign_2.9.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): SimDesign_2.9.tgz, r-release (x86_64): SimDesign_2.9.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): SimDesign_2.9.tgz
Old sources: SimDesign archive

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