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, implicitly supports parallel processing with high-quality random number generation, and provides tools for managing high-performance computing (HPC) array jobs submitted to schedulers such as SLURM. 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: 2.18
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: methods, testthat, parallel, parallelly, snow, dplyr, sessioninfo, beepr, pbapply (≥ 1.3-0), RPushbullet, future, future.apply, progressr, R.utils, stats
Suggests: knitr, ggplot2, tidyr, purrr, shiny, copula, extraDistr, renv, cli, job, future.batchtools, FrF2, rmarkdown
Published: 2024-12-14
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.SimDesign
Author: Phil Chalmers ORCID iD [aut, cre], Matthew Sigal [ctb], Ogreden Oguzhan [ctb], Mikko Ronkko [ctb]
Maintainer: Phil Chalmers <rphilip.chalmers at gmail.com>
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: http://philchalmers.github.io/SimDesign/, https://github.com/philchalmers/SimDesign/wiki
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: SimDesign citation info
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: SimDesign results

Documentation:

Reference manual: SimDesign.pdf
Vignettes: Managing warning and error messages (source, R code)
Exporting objects and functions from the workspace (source, R code)
HPC cluster array jobs (e.g., via Slurm) (source, R code)
Multiple analysis functions (source, R code)
Parallel computing information (source, R code)
Saving simulation results and state (source, R code)
Introduction to the SimDesign package (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: SimDesign_2.18.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: SimDesign_2.18.zip, r-release: SimDesign_2.18.zip, r-oldrel: SimDesign_2.18.zip
macOS binaries: r-devel (arm64): SimDesign_2.18.tgz, r-release (arm64): SimDesign_2.18.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): SimDesign_2.18.tgz, r-devel (x86_64): SimDesign_2.18.tgz, r-release (x86_64): SimDesign_2.18.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): SimDesign_2.18.tgz
Old sources: SimDesign archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: SimNPH
Reverse imports: autoFC, mirt, mobileRNA, mxfda, NPCDTools

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