README.md

In aalfons/simFrame: Simulation Framework

simFrame: Simulation Framework

A general framework for statistical simulation, which allows researchers to make use of a wide range of simulation designs with minimal programming effort. The package provides functionality for drawing samples from a distribution or a finite population, for adding outliers and missing values, as well as for visualization of the simulation results. It follows a clear object-oriented design and supports parallel computing to increase computational performance.

To cite package simFrame in publications, please use:

A. Alfons, M. Templ & P. Filzmoser (2010). An Object-Oriented Framework for Statistical Simulation: The R Package simFrame. Journal of Statistical Software, 37(3), 1-36. DOI 10.18637/jss.v037.i03.

Installation

Package simFrame is on CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network), hence the latest release can be easily installed from the R command line via

install.packages("simFrame")

Vignettes

CRAN requires that suggested packages, such as those only used in examples and vignettes, are only used conditionally with requireNamespace("<package>") so that R CMD check still goes through even if those package are not installed. The vignettes rely heavily on packages laeken, mvtnorm, and robCompositions, and using them conditionally would greatly impair the readability of the vignettes.

Therefore the vignettes are no longer included in simFrame version 0.5.4. Instead, they can be found here in folder vignettes:

• simFrame-intro.pdf: The general introduction to the package based on the above mentioned article in the Journal of Statistical Software.
• simFrame-eusilc.pdf: Additional examples for design-based simulations using synthetic EU-SILC population data.

Report issues and request features

If you experience any bugs or issues or if you have any suggestions for additional features, please submit an issue via the Issues tab of this repository. Please have a look at existing issues first to see if your problem or feature request has already been discussed.

Contribute to the package

If you want to contribute to the package, you can fork this repository and create a pull request after implementing the desired functionality.

aalfons/simFrame documentation built on Nov. 27, 2021, 7:51 a.m.