SimDesign

2.25

Structure for Organizing Monte Carlo Simulation Designs

7packages depend

124.9Kdownloads / year

2.2%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Phil ChalmersFirst published 2015-10-0551 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools to safely and efficiently organize and execute Monte Carlo simulation experiments in R. The package controls the structure and back-end of Monte Carlo simulation experiments by utilizing a generate-analyse-summarise workflow. The workflow safeguards against common simulation coding issues, such as automatically re-simulating non-convergent results, prevents inadvertently overwriting simulation files, catches error and warning messages during execution, implicitly supports parallel processing with high-quality random number generation, and provides tools for managing high-performance computing (HPC) array jobs submitted to schedulers such as SLURM. For a pedagogical introduction to the package see Sigal and Chalmers (2016) doi:10.1080/10691898.2016.1246953. For a more in-depth overview of the package and its design philosophy see Chalmers and Adkins (2020) doi:10.20982/tqmp.16.4.p248.

Install

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

install.packages("SimDesign", 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("philchalmers/SimDesign")

Development version from philchalmers/SimDesign. 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-simdesign

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-SimDesign

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-SimDesign

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 4.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.14

2.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 174 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 61%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 49%
References docs: 81%

Downloads

124.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,225 · ~342/day · ~10.4K/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ philchalmers/simdesign

64Stars

24Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

48Releases

1,505Commits

7Contributors

rsimulationsimulation-frameworkmonte-carlo-simulation

1,505 commits · Last activity 2026-07-21 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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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/philchalmers/simdesign on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

methodstestthatparallelparallelly dplyr sessioninfo beepr pbapply mirai future future.apply progressr R.utilscodetoolsclipr e1071 qs2stats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

snow knitr ggplot2 tidyr purrr shiny copula extraDistr renv cli job future.batchtools FrF2 rmarkdown RPushbullet httr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

48indirect

SimNPH Spower FluxPoint mirt mxfda futurize progressify

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 14,856 (59%)Rd 8,140 (32%)Vignettes 2,263 (9%)Other 24 (0%)Shell 1 (0%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S316

Cyclomatic complexity: 4.0 median / 243 max
Test cases: 12 / 0.14 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

0.0%

Tests / Examples

0.0% / 37% ex

Functions

148 68 exported

Complexity

9.8 avg / 243 max

Call network

148 nodes / 115 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

148 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
AnalyseIf exp	4	0%
Attach exp	18	0%
Bradley1978 exp	10	0%
CC exp	7	0%
ECR exp	16	0%
GenerateIf exp	4	0%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 2

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
BF_sim	SimDesign/data.frame	28 × 12	–
BF_sim_alternative	SimDesign/data.frame	16 × 29	–

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Phil Chalmers

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Phil Chalmers

Author, Maintainer

Mikko Rönkkö

Author · added in 2.22

Contributors (3)

Moritz Ketzer

Contributor · added in 2.19.1

Ogreden Oguzhan

Contributor · added in 1.10.1

Matthew Sigal

Contributor · added in 1.7

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Mikko Ronkko

no longer listed · 2.15 to 2.21

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-05
Total releases: 51 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 3.0 KB / 2 files
Download size: 2.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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