simulist: Simulate Disease Outbreak Line List and Contacts Data

Tools to simulate realistic raw case data for an epidemic in the form of line lists and contacts using a branching process. Simulated outbreaks are parameterised with epidemiological parameters and can have age-structured populations, age-stratified hospitalisation and death risk and time-varying case fatality risk.

Version: 0.6.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.2.0)
Imports: checkmate, english, epiparameter (≥ 0.4.0), grates, randomNames, rlang, stats
Suggests: dplyr, epicontacts (≥ 1.1.3), ggplot2, incidence2 (≥ 2.6.2), knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tidyr
Published: 2025-08-28
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.simulist
Author: Joshua W. Lambert ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Carmen Tamayo Cuartero ORCID iD [aut], Hugo Gruson ORCID iD [ctb, rev], Pratik R. Gupte ORCID iD [ctb, rev], Adam Kucharski ORCID iD [rev], Chris Hartgerink ORCID iD [rev], Sebastian Funk ORCID iD [ctb], London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, LSHTM ROR ID [cph]
Maintainer: Joshua W. Lambert <joshua.lambert at lshtm.ac.uk>
BugReports: https://github.com/epiverse-trace/simulist/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/epiverse-trace/simulist, https://epiverse-trace.github.io/simulist/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Citation: simulist citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: Epidemiology
CRAN checks: simulist results

Documentation:

Reference manual: simulist.html , simulist.pdf
Vignettes: Age-stratified hospitalisation and death risks (source, R code)
Age-structured population (source, R code)
Design Principles for {simulist} (source, R code)
Reporting delays and right-truncation of line list data (source, R code)
Getting Started with {simulist} (source, R code)
Time-varying case fatality risk (source, R code)
Visualising simulated data (source, R code)
Wrangling simulated outbreak data (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: simulist_0.6.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: simulist_0.6.0.zip, r-release: simulist_0.6.0.zip, r-oldrel: simulist_0.6.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): simulist_0.6.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): simulist_0.6.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): simulist_0.6.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): simulist_0.6.0.tgz
Old sources: simulist archive

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