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ABM

Agent Based Model Simulation Framework

v0.4.3 · Jan 25, 2025 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

A high-performance, flexible and extensible framework to develop continuous-time agent based models. Its high performance allows it to simulate millions of agents efficiently. Agents are defined by their states (arbitrary R lists). The events are handled in chronological order. This avoids the multi-event interaction problem in a time step of discrete-time simulations, and gives precise outcomes. The states are modified by provided or user-defined events. The framework provides a flexible and customizable implementation of state transitions (either spontaneous or caused by agent interactions), making the framework suitable to apply to epidemiology and ecology, e.g., to model life history stages, competition and cooperation, and disease and information spread. The agent interactions are flexible and extensible. The framework provides random mixing and network interactions, and supports multi-level mixing patterns. It can be easily extended to other interactions such as inter- and intra-households (or workplaces and schools) by subclassing an R6 class. It can be used to study the effect of age-specific, group-specific, and contact- specific intervention strategies, and complex interactions between individual behavior and population dynamics. This modeling concept can also be used in business, economical and political models. As a generic event based framework, it can be applied to many other fields. More information about the implementation and examples can be found at <https://github.com/junlingm/ABM>.

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NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

compiled code

File ‘ABM/libs/ABM.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

compiled code

File ‘ABM/libs/ABM.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

compiled code

File 'ABM/libs/x64/ABM.dll':
  Found non-API call to R: 'R_UnboundValue'

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual,
and section 'Moving into C API compliance' for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘ABM/libs/ABM.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

Changelog

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v0.4.3

# Version 0.4.3
• Fixed a bug that prevented the parsingstate transitions such as list(x="a", y="b")->list("x="A", y="b").
• Fixed a possible memory leak suggested by valgrind.
• Use cached gamma random number generators to reimplement newGammaWaitingTime.

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NOTE 13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 27, 2026
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

compiled code

File ‘ABM/libs/ABM.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 12, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 11, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies R6 Rcpp ABM

Version History

new 0.4.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.4.3 ← 0.4.2 diff Jan 25, 2025
updated 0.4.2 ← 0.4.1 diff Jan 14, 2025
updated 0.4.1 ← 0.3 diff Mar 13, 2024
updated 0.3 ← 0.2 diff Mar 23, 2023
new 0.2 Mar 9, 2023