NetLogoR: Build and Run Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Models
Build and run spatially explicit agent-based models using only the R platform. 'NetLogoR' follows the same framework as the 'NetLogo' software (Wilensky (1999) <https://www.netlogo.org>) and is a translation in R of the structure and functions of 'NetLogo'. 'NetLogoR' provides new R classes to define model agents and functions to implement spatially explicit agent-based models in the R environment. This package allows benefiting of the fast and easy coding phase from the highly developed 'NetLogo' framework, coupled with the versatility, power and massive resources of the R software. Examples of two models from the NetLogo software repository (Ants <https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Ants>) and Wolf-Sheep-Predation (<https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/WolfSheepPredation>), and a third, Butterfly, from Railsback and Grimm (2012) <https://www.railsback-grimm-abm-book.com/>, all written using 'NetLogoR' are available. The 'NetLogo' code of the original version of these models is provided alongside. A programming guide inspired from the 'NetLogo' Programming Guide (<https://docs.netlogo.org/programming.html>) and a dictionary of 'NetLogo' primitives (<https://docs.netlogo.org/dictionary.html>) equivalences are also available. NOTE: To increment 'time', these functions can use a for loop or can be integrated with a discrete event simulator, such as 'SpaDES' (<https://cran.r-project.org/package=SpaDES>).
| Version: | 1.0.6 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.3) |
| Imports: | data.table, grDevices, methods,quickPlot (≥ 1.0.2), stats,terra, utils |
| Suggests: | CircStats,covr,knitr,microbenchmark,raster,rmarkdown,sf,sp,SpaDES.core (≥ 2.0.3),SpaDES.tools (≥ 2.0.5),testthat,withr |
| Published: | 2025-09-02 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.NetLogoR |
| Author: | Sarah Bauduin [aut], Eliot J B McIntire [aut, cre], Alex M Chubaty [aut], His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources Canada [cph] |
| Maintainer: | Eliot J B McIntire <eliot.mcintire at canada.ca> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/PredictiveEcology/NetLogoR/issues |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| URL: | https://netlogor.predictiveecology.org,https://github.com/PredictiveEcology/NetLogoR/,https://groups.google.com/g/netlogor |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-CA |
| Citation: | NetLogoR citation info |
| Materials: | README,NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | NetLogoR results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | NetLogoR.html ,NetLogoR.pdf |
| Vignettes: | NetLogoR Dictionary (source) Programming Guide 'NetLogoR' (source,R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | NetLogoR_1.0.6.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel:NetLogoR_1.0.6.zip, r-release:NetLogoR_1.0.6.zip, r-oldrel:NetLogoR_1.0.6.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64):NetLogoR_1.0.6.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64):NetLogoR_1.0.6.tgz, r-release (x86_64):NetLogoR_1.0.6.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64):NetLogoR_1.0.6.tgz |
| Old sources: | NetLogoR archive |
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