rbi.helpers: 'rbi' Helper Functions

Contains a collection of helper functions to use with 'rbi', the R interface to 'LibBi', described in Murray et al. (2015) <doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i10>. It contains functions to adapt the proposal distribution and number of particles in particle Markov-Chain Monte Carlo, as well as calculating the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) and converting between times in 'LibBi' results and R time/dates.

Version: 0.4.1
Imports: rbi (≥ 0.10.0), data.table, lubridate, reshape2, Matrix
Suggests: markdown, testthat, covr (≥ 3.2.0), stringi, knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2025-09-26
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rbi.helpers
Author: Sebastian Funk ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Sebastian Funk <sebastian.funk at lshtm.ac.uk>
BugReports: https://github.com/sbfnk/rbi.helpers/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://libbi.org, https://github.com/sbfnk/rbi, https://github.com/sbfnk/rbi.helpers
NeedsCompilation: no
SystemRequirements: libbi (>= 1.4.2)
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: rbi.helpers results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rbi.helpers.html , rbi.helpers.pdf
Vignettes: Introduction to rbi.helpers (source, R code)

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Package source: rbi.helpers_0.4.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: rbi.helpers_0.4.1.zip, r-release: rbi.helpers_0.4.1.zip, r-oldrel: rbi.helpers_0.4.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rbi.helpers_0.4.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rbi.helpers_0.4.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rbi.helpers_0.4.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rbi.helpers_0.4.1.tgz
Old sources: rbi.helpers archive

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