[R-sig-Geo] agent-based model with GIS

[Antony]

Thank you, Roger Bivand and Chris Reudenbach, for your advice.

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Bivand [mailto:Roger.Bivand at nhh.no] 
Sent: 03 February 2017 19:20
To: Antony <antonybutts at me.com>
Cc: 'r-sig-geo' <r-sig-geo at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] agent-based model with GIS

On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Antony wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am interested in building an agent-based model with geospatial 
> information in R. My idea is to create agents that walk down streets, 
> drive cars and generally act like ordinary people going to work and so 
> on. I was wondering if this is something that anyone on this group has 
> tried to do using R or knows about? Specifically, I am interested in 
> using this to understand how crowds form. So far, I have been building 
> simulations like this in Netlogo, but am interested to move into using 
> R and would very much appreciate people's experience / hints & tips.

Maybe start from the R interface to NetLogo:

https://cran.r-project.org/package=RNetLogo
https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/v058i02

and a number of blogs, as well as simecol:

https://cran.r-project.org/package=simecol

Roger

>
> Many thanks & best wishes,
>
> Antony
>
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