Re: [R] Agent-based social simulation and R

2008-11-08 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
almost the same as ABMs in other areas. See http://simecol.r-forge.r-project.org for the package, examples, pdf's, and in particular the useR!2008 slides. Thomas Petzoldt Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: Do anyone know anything about the use of R for agent-based social simulation? It should be possible

Re: [R] Agent-based social simulation and R

2008-11-08 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Hi Tom, you may have a look at the CRAN package simecol, that has some examples how to implement different types of dynamic models in R (differential equations, grid models, individual based models). Individual-based models (IBMs) are a model family used in ecology,

Re: [R] Agent-based social simulation and R

2008-11-08 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Hi Tom, you may have a look at the CRAN package simecol, that has some examples how to implement different types of dynamic models in R (differential equations, grid models, individual based models). Individual-based models (IBMs) are a model family used in ecology,

Re: [R] Agent-based social simulation and R

2008-11-07 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Simone Gabbriellini wrote: Tom, I don't know if there are better ways, but this is the way I do: I use Python for building the AB model, and RPy as an interface to R for statistical analysis. One of the best package for SNA in R is igraph, which has a nice Python version. But if you prefere

Re: [R] Agent-based social simulation and R

2008-11-07 Thread Simone Gabbriellini
too), you can simply handle it via RPy. I've learned this strategy from Pietro Terna - http://web.econ.unito.it/terna/ hope it helps, Simone Gabbriellini Il giorno 07/nov/08, alle ore 13:06, Tom Backer Johnsen ha scritto: Do anyone know anything about the use of R for agent-based social

[R] Agent-based social simulation and R

2008-11-07 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Do anyone know anything about the use of R for agent-based social simulation? It should be possible, and would be convenient for the simple reason that there are several nice packages containing useful stuff for SNA (Social Network Analysis). Information about packages, web sites

Re: [R] Agent-based social simulation and R

2008-11-07 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Martin Elff wrote: Hi Tom, my package 'memisc' contains a sort of an infrastructure for doing simulations. As a fun exercise I also used it to create a 'toy' agent based simulation of Schelling's neighbourhood model. Although it is not a serious application, at least it shows that agent

Re: [R] Agent-based social simulation and R

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Elff
On Friday 07 November 2008 (19:45:04), you wrote: Martin Elff wrote: Hi Tom, my package 'memisc' contains a sort of an infrastructure for doing simulations. As a fun exercise I also used it to create a 'toy' agent based simulation of Schelling's neighbourhood model. Although it is not a