Model fitting and inference for infectious disease dynamics
by Sebastian Funk, Anton Camacho, Helen Johnson, Amanda Minter, Kathleen O’Reilly and Nicholas Davies
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Required software
- R is used as the main programming language. Please install at least version: R-4.2.0.
- RStudio (optional) is a popular graphic user interface (GUI).
If you are not familiar with R, check our list of useful commands.
Installation of the fitR package
The simplest way to install the fitR is to use the
devtools package:
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("sbfnk/fitR")Then you can check that the installation completed successfully by loading the package into your R session:
library("fitR")To see all the commands available in fitR, have a look at the fitR documentation.
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