Software

rsocsim - Socsim microsimulation R package

Abstract

Socsim ('Social Simulator') is an open source stochastic microsimulation platform used to produce synthetic populations with plausible kinship structures using demographic rates as input. rsocsim is a R-package of socsim and useful related r-function which make the installation and use of Socsim less complicated. Socsim was originally developed for Unix at UC Berkeley [1-2], where it has been mantained for decades. The current release of rsocsim aims to be OS-agnostic and, for the most part, back-compatible with the original Socsim distribution (https://lab.demog.berkeley.edu/socsim/).