epicR: Evaluation Platform in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Evaluation Platform in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (EPIC) is a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) model that simulates health outcomes of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) based on demographics and individual-level risk factors, based on the model published in Sadatsafavi et al. (2019) <doi:10.1177/0272989X18824098>.

Version: 0.9.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: Rcpp (≥ 1.0.8), graphics, stats, tools, ggplot2 (≥ 3.3.6), ggthemes, sqldf, jsonlite, readr, reshape2, scales, tidyr, tibble, dplyr
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), openxlsx, survival, survminer, knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-03-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.epicR (may not be active yet)
Author: Mohsen Sadatsafavi [aut, cph], Amin Adibi [aut, cre], Kate Johnson [aut]
Maintainer: Amin Adibi <adibi at alumni.ubc.ca>
License: GPL-3
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: epicR results [issues need fixing before 2026-03-22]

Documentation:

Reference manual: epicR.html , epicR.pdf
Vignettes: Adding a New Country to epicR (source, R code)
EPIC Background (source, R code)
Getting Started with EPIC (source, R code)
InputsOutputsStructure (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: epicR_0.9.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: epicR_0.9.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): epicR_0.9.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): epicR_0.9.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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