socialSim: Simulate and Analyse Social Interaction Data
Provides tools to simulate and analyse datasets of social interactions
between individuals using hierarchical Bayesian models implemented in Stan.
The package interacts with Stan via 'cmdstanr' (available from
<https://mc-stan.org/r-packages/>) or 'rstan', depending on user setup.
Users can generate realistic interaction data where individual phenotypes influence
and respond to those of their partners, with control over sampling design parameters
such as the number of individuals, partners, and repeated dyads. The simulation
framework allows flexible control over variation and correlation in mean trait
values, social responsiveness, and social impact, making it suitable for research on
interacting phenotypes and on direct and indirect genetic effects ('DGEs' and 'IGEs').
The package also includes functions to fit and compare alternative models of social
effects, including impact–responsiveness, variance–partitioning, and trait-based
models, and to summarise model performance in terms of bias and dispersion. For more
details on the study of social interactions and impact-responsiveness,
see Moore et al. (1997) <doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb01458.x> and
de Groot et al. (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104996>.
| Version: |
0.1.6 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.2) |
| Imports: |
MASS, stats, future, future.apply |
| Suggests: |
rstan, cmdstanr, devtools, testthat, rmarkdown, knitr |
| Published: |
2025-10-30 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.socialSim |
| Author: |
Rori Efrain Wijnhorst
 [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: |
Rori Efrain Wijnhorst <roriwijnhorst at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/RoriWijnhorst/socialSim/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/RoriWijnhorst/socialSim |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Additional_repositories: |
https://stan-dev.r-universe.dev |
| Language: |
en-GB |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
socialSim results |
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