ringbp: Simulate and Evaluate Targeted Interventions in Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Branching process simulation model of infectious disease transmission with flexible parameterisation of epidemiology and targeted interventions, including isolation, contact tracing and quarantine, to reduce transmission, together with functions to evaluate outbreak control. Introduced in Hellewell et al. (2020) <doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30074-7>.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.4.0)
Imports: checkmate, data.table, sn
Suggests: future, future.apply, knitr, rmarkdown, roxyglobals (≥ 1.0.0), spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tinyplot
Published: 2026-06-15
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ringbp (may not be active yet)
Author: Joel Hellewell ORCID iD [aut], Sam Abbott ORCID iD [aut], Amy Gimma [aut], Tim Lucas [aut], Sebastian Funk [aut], Adam Kucharski [aut], Hugo Gruson ORCID iD [ctb], Carl A. B. Pearson ORCID iD [aut, rev], Joshua W. Lambert ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Joshua W. Lambert <joshua.lambert at lshtm.ac.uk>
BugReports: https://github.com/epiforecasts/ringbp/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://epiforecasts.io/ringbp/, https://github.com/epiforecasts/ringbp
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: ringbp results

Documentation:

Reference manual: ringbp.html , ringbp.pdf
Vignettes: Scenario parameter sweep (source, R code)
{ringbp} Model Description (source, R code)
Getting started with {ringbp} (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: ringbp_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): ringbp_1.0.0.tgz

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