piecemeal: an R package for wrangling large simulations

14 April 2025

After having to set up yet another simulation study in which some replications and treatments result in an error, the total runtime is not completely predictable, etc., I wrote an R package that implements my usual tricks for managing such simulations in a concise and user-friendly manner.

If you have to deal with simulations with large numbers of treatment combinations and/or replications on a shared computing cluster, give it a try.

The package, piecemeal, is not on CRAN (yet?), but you can install it from GitHub at the link, or by running:

install.packages("remotes") # if not already installed
remotes::install_github("krivit/piecemeal", build_vignettes = TRUE)