R Observatory: Metrics for babsim.hospital version 11.8.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2024-04-20. Its history is shown below.

Reason: requires archived package 'SPOT'

Details below reflect version 11.8.8, its last release before removal.

babsim.hospital

11.8.8

Bartz & Bartz Simulation Hospital

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Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Bartz-Beielstein6 releasesCRAN page ↗

Implements a discrete-event simulation model for a hospital resource planning problem. The project is motivated by the challenges faced by health care institutions in the current COVID-19 pandemic. It can be used by health departments to forecast demand for intensive care beds, ventilators, and staff resources. Our modelling approach is inspired by "A novel modelling technique to predict resource requirements in critical care - a case study" (Lawton and McCooe 2019) and combines two powerful technologies: (i) discrete event simulation using the 'simmer' package and (ii) model-based optimization using 'SPOT'. Ucar I, Smeets B, Azcorra A (2019) doi:10.18637/jss.v090.i02. Bartz-Beielstein T, Lasarczyk C W G, Preuss M (2005) doi:10.1109/CEC.2005.1554761. Lawton T, McCooe M (2019) doi:10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-17.

Install

R (source archive)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/babsim.hospital/babsim.hospital_11.8.8.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "babsim.hospital_11.8.8.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (11.8.8) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-babsim.hospital

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-babsim.hospital

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.45

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

20

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 95%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 71%
References docs: 0%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (20)

SPOT checkmate curl data.table dplyr ggplot2 golem igraph lubridate markovchainmethodspadrparallelrvest scales simmer slider testthat plyr xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

batchtools knitr rmarkdownrpartrpart.plot simmer.plot stringr tidyverse usethis vctrs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

Author, Maintainer

Frederik Rehbach

Author

Eva Bartz

Author

Olaf Mersmann

Author

Contributors (1)

Martin Zaefferer

Contributor

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-04-20
requires archived package 'SPOT'
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
11.8.8
2022-05-30 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-05-30
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-05-25
requires archived package 'markovchain'
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
11.8.4
2021-11-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
11.8.2
2021-05-15 · diff ↗
11.7.14
2021-03-18 · diff ↗
11.7.12
2021-03-14 · diff ↗
11.5.14
2020-12-14
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

Total releases: 6
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 441 KB / 16 files
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Bartz-Beielstein, T., Rehbach, F., Bartz, E., Mersmann, O., & Zaefferer, M. (n.d.). babsim.hospital: Bartz & Bartz Simulation Hospital (Version 11.8.8) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 13, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=babsim.hospital

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for babsim.hospital version 11.8.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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