simer

1.0.0

Data Simulation for Life Science and Breeding

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2.8Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Xiaolei LiuFirst published 2022-05-127 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Data simulator including genotype, phenotype, pedigree, selection and reproduction in R. It simulates most of reproduction process of animals or plants and provides data for GS (Genomic Selection), GWAS (Genome-Wide Association Study), and Breeding. For ADI model, please see Kao C and Zeng Z (2002) doi:10.1093/genetics/160.3.1243. For build.cov, please see B. D. Ripley (1987) <ISBN:9780470009604>.

Install

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

install.packages("simer", 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("xiaolei-lab/SIMER")

Development version from xiaolei-lab/SIMER. 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-simer

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-simer

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

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12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
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ERROR2026-04-18
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NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ xiaolei-lab/simer

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728Commits

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License Apache-2.0 · 728 commits · Last activity 2025-06-13 · +4.7% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

utilsstatsMatrixmethodsMASSbigmemory jsonlite Rcpp

LinkingTo (5)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppProgress BH bigmemory

Suggests (2)

knitr igraph

Enhances (0)

none

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Xiaolei Liu

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Xiaolei Liu

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Package Timeline

7 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.0Latest
2025-02-26 · current release · diff ↗
0.9.0.6
2025-01-30 · diff ↗
0.9.0.5
2024-09-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.9.0.4
2023-11-29 · diff ↗
0.9.0.3
2023-10-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.9.0.2
2022-08-08 · diff ↗
0.9.0.0
2022-05-12
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-12
Total releases: 7 / 4 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Download size: 3.9 MB
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