README.md

In timothy-barry/simulatr: Design Portable and Scalable Simulation Studies

simulatr: Portable and scalable numerical simulations

Simulation studies play a crucial role in the development and assessment of statistical methods. However, writing portable and scalable simulation code is challenging. With the help of Nextflow, simulatr decouples the specification of a simulation from the execution of a simulation, enabling users to develop a simulation study on their laptop and then seamlessly run the simulation at-scale on a distributed computing platform like a high-performance computing cluster or cloud computing service.

Note: This package is experimental and under active development. Use with caution.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("katsevich-lab/simulatr")

Acknowledgment

We thank Jacob Bien for developing the simulator package, which served as an inspiration for simulatr. The primary difference is that simulatr is specifically designed for seamless scaling via distributed computing platforms.

timothy-barry/simulatr documentation built on Sept. 6, 2024, 7:10 p.m.