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rsocsim 1.9.17 (June 2026)

• small fixes after CRAN feedback:
  • supressable output
  • on.exit() instead of finally() to reset working directory
  • remove or replace with in documentation

rsocsim 1.9.14 (May 2026)

• significant performance improvements in retrieve_kin()

rsocsim 1.9.9 (May 2026)

• package metadata and documentation cleanup for CRAN submission
• refreshed release references in the README

rsocsim 1.9.7 (May 2026)

• new: parallelization!
  • one can provide a list of seeds or a list of sup-filenames and all those simulations will be executed in parallel
  • read_opop and read_omar will read several result files into one dataframe, if the user supplies a list of seeds or a list of filenames instead of only one seed. These functions increment ids so that ids will not collide.
• printing to the console:
  • removed lots of unneccessary print statements
  • replaced lots of sprintf statements in the C/C++ code with safer wrapper functions
  • most simulation log-file statements are now “debug-level” and will not pollute the log-file
• Making the package CRAN-ready by removing lots of warnings
• fixed some issues/inconsistencies in retrieve_kin and estimate_rates
• added more test simulations
• Bugfix:restore input/output folder naming behavior from version 1.5.9

rsocsim 1.9 (March/April 2026)

• improved marriage queue:
  • array based index
  • 1.9.2: for performance, one can now sample n males instead of all males from the marriage queue
    • default marriage_sample_size = 1000 *change in sup-file with the keyword “marriage_sample_size 2000”

rsocsim 1.8.5 (March 2026)

• added a working minimum age check for husbands, defaults to 15 years. Didn’t always work before

rsocsim 1.8 (Jan 2026)

• added end2end tests as a preparation for some improvements to the C code

rsocsim 1.7.4 (Dec 5 2025)

• added parameter presim_duration_months to download_rates

rsocsim 1.7.0

• added function create_initial_simulation
  • the code is based on https://github.com/MPIDR/rsocsim_workshop_paa?tab=readme-ov-file#23-create-initial-population-and-marriage-files
• merged bugfixes that caused crashes in socsim since December 2024

rsocsim 1.6.0

• added function download_rates, which downloads UN rates and saves them into rsocsim format
  • See https://github.com/MPIDR/rsocsim/issues/28

rsocsim 1.5.9

• removed keyword register in load.cpp (See https://github.com/MPIDR/rsocsim/issues/11; it causes errors on Mac)

rsocsim 1.5.8

• renamed getKin() to retrieve_kin()
• bugfixes

rsocsim 1.5.7

• bugfixes

rsocsim 1.5.6

• read_opop and read_omar
• works on linux and windows, also with future and clustercall. Mac not tested, linux sometimes flaky

rsocsim 1.5.5

• compiles and runs on Linux again
• reorganized contributed code from Liliana and Mallika
• todo: tests for contributed code. how to use these functions?
• todo: install and run on Mac

rsocsim 1.5.4

• Max age 200 years
• new command for sup files: marriage_after_childbirth 1
  • allows simulations without marriage rates
  • mothers will marry immediately before childbirth if not married already

rsocsim 1.5.3

• compiles on Github now
• use pkgdown to generate documentation-website

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