simmer is a process-oriented and trajectory-based Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) package for R. Designed to be a generic framework like SimPy or SimJulia, it leverages the power of Rcpp to boost the performance and turning DES in R feasible. As a noteworthy characteristic, simmer exploits the concept of trajectory: a common path in the simulation model for entities of the same type. It is pretty flexible and simple to use, and leverages the chaining/piping workflow introduced by the magrittr package.

Extensions

Package	Description	Status
simmer.plot	Plotting Methods for simmer
simmer.bricks	Helper Methods for simmer Trajectories
simmer.optim	Parameter Optimization Functions for simmer
simmer.json	Read / Load simmer Definitions in JSON Format
simmer.mon	Monitoring Backends for simmer

Mailing list

For bugs and/or issues, create a new issue on GitHub. For other questions or comments, please subscribe to the simmer-devel mailing list. You must be a member to post messages, but anyone can read the archived discussions.

Documentation

Documentation is available at r-simmer.org/reference. To get started, please explore our vignettes online, or in R:

vignette(package = "simmer")

Installation

Install the release version from CRAN:

install.packages("simmer")

The installation from GitHub requires the remotes package.

remotes::install_github("r-simmer/simmer")

Please note that the package contains some C++ code and thus you need a development environment to build the package (e.g., Rtools for Windows).

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