denim

An R package for building and simulating deterministic discrete-time compartmental models with memory.

Installation

You can install denim from CRAN with:

install.packages("denim")

Or install the development version of denim from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("thinhong/denim")

Example

This is a basic example to illustrate the specification of a simple SIR model, which contains three compartments susceptible (S), infected (I) and recovered (R). The recovery probabilities of infected individuals are gamma distributed in this example:

library(denim)

transitions <- denim_dsl({
  S -> I = beta * S * I / N
  I -> R = d_gamma(rate = 1/3, shape = 2)
})

parameters <- c(
  beta = 1.2,
  N = 1000
)

initialValues <- c(
  S = 999, 
  I = 1, 
  R = 0
)

simulationDuration <- 20
timeStep <- 0.01

mod <- sim(transitions = transitions, initialValues = initialValues, 
           parameters = parameters, simulationDuration = simulationDuration, 
           timeStep = timeStep)

The output is a data frame with 4 columns: Time, S, I and R

head(mod)
#>   Time        S        I            R
#> 1 0.00 999.0000 1.000000 0.000000e+00
#> 2 0.01 998.9880 1.011982 5.543225e-06
#> 3 0.02 998.9759 1.024097 2.219016e-05
#> 4 0.03 998.9636 1.036346 5.000038e-05
#> 5 0.04 998.9512 1.048730 8.903457e-05
#> 6 0.05 998.9386 1.061252 1.393545e-04

We can plot the output with:

plot(mod, ylim = c(1, 1000))