simulist v0.7.0 (& v0.7.1) and publication in JOSS – Epiverse-TRACE: tools for outbreak analytics

We are very excited to announce that a publication accompanying the simulist package has now been published in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.08781.

The simulist version coupled to the publication is v0.7.1, however most changes since v0.6.0 were released in v0.7.0 which is available on CRAN.

library(simulist)

The updates in the v0.7.0 release contain the JOSS paper (including .md, .bib and figures) and a range of small updates to simulation code and documentation:

New features

The sampling of sex for line list and contacts data can now be weighted instead of assuming a uniform probability via prob_male in config (#255).
The reporting_delay argument in sim_linelist() and sim_outbreak() now supports <epiparameter> objects, matching the functionality of the other delay distribution arguments (#262).
A new line list events plot has been added to the vis-linelist.Rmd vignette (#278).

Minor changes

Added dependabot (#258).
GitHub actions versions are updated (multiple PRs).
.lintr is updated to include more linters (#279) and the # nolint flag syntax is fixed (#263).

The changes in v0.7.1 are minor edits to the JOSS paper for publication.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the whole Epiverse community for their input on the development of the simulist R package.

Thanks to the team at JOSS for rewarding open source software, and the editors and reviewers for their helpful comments that improved the publication (open review found here).

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Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{epiverse-trace_development_team2026,
  author = {Epiverse-TRACE development team, The},
  title = {Simulist V0.7.0 (\& V0.7.1) and Publication in {JOSS}},
  date = {2026-03-10},
  url = {https://epiverse-trace.github.io/posts/simulist_joss/},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Epiverse-TRACE development team, The. 2026. “Simulist V0.7.0 (& V0.7.1) and Publication in JOSS.” March 10. https://epiverse-trace.github.io/posts/simulist_joss/.