EpiEstim

2.2-5

Estimate Time Varying Reproduction Numbers from Epidemic Curves

7packages depend

28.3Kdownloads / year

41.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Anne CoriFirst published 2012-06-079 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools to quantify transmissibility throughout an epidemic from the analysis of time series of incidence as described in Cori et al. (2013) doi:10.1093/aje/kwt133 and Wallinga and Teunis (2004) doi:10.1093/aje/kwh255.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("EpiEstim", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("mrc-ide/EpiEstim")

Development version from mrc-ide/EpiEstim. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-epiestim

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-EpiEstim

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.19

41.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMEYes · 56 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 65%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 73%
References docs: 46%

Downloads

28.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,159 · ~78/day · ~2.4K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mrc-ide/epiestim

104Stars

40Forks

54Open issues

7Open PRs

5Releases

866Commits

19Contributors

866 commits · Last activity 2026-07-20 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mrc-ide/epiestim on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (11)

coarseDataToolsstatsgraphicsreshape2 ggplot2 gridExtra fitdistrplus coda incidence scalesgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthatutilsvdiffr covr knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

0indirect

EpiLPS ViroReportR covid19india earlyR ern EpiNova projections

Code & Tests

People & History

People (14)

Maintainer (1)

Anne Cori

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Anne Cori

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (13)

Simon Cauchemez

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Elisabeth Dahlqwist

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

P. Alex Demarsh

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Neil M. Ferguson

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Christophe Fraser

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Thibaut Jombart

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Zhian N. Kamvar

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Justin Lessler

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

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Shikun Li

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Jonathan A. Polonsky

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Jake Stockwin

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Robin Thompson

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Rolina van Gaalen

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-06-07
Total releases: 9 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 4.5 KB / 8 files
Download size: 585 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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