redist: Simulation Methods for Legislative Redistricting

Enables researchers to sample redistricting plans from a pre-specified target distribution using Sequential Monte Carlo and Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms. The package allows for the implementation of various constraints in the redistricting process such as geographic compactness and population parity requirements. Tools for analysis such as computation of various summary statistics and plotting functionality are also included. The package implements methods described in Fifield, Higgins, Imai and Tarr (2020) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2020.1739532>, Fifield, Imai, Kawahara, and Kenny (2020) <doi:10.1080/2330443X.2020.1791773>, and McCartan and Imai (2020) <arXiv:2008.06131>.

Version: 4.0.1
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0), redistmetrics (≥ 1.0.2)
Imports: Rcpp (≥ 0.11.0), rlang, cli (≥ 3.1.0), vctrs, tidyselect, stringr, dplyr (≥ 1.0.0), sf, doParallel, foreach, doRNG, servr, sys, ggplot2, patchwork
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, RcppThread, cli, redistmetrics
Suggests: coda, s2, lwgeom, withr, leaflet, leafgl, loo, Rmpi, knitr, rmarkdown, rmapshaper, scales, units, RSpectra, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), rstudioapi
Published: 2022-06-16
Author: Christopher T. Kenny [aut, cre], Cory McCartan [aut], Ben Fifield [aut], Kosuke Imai [aut], Jun Kawahara [ctb], Alexander Tarr [ctb], Michael Higgins [ctb]
Maintainer: Christopher T. Kenny <christopherkenny at fas.harvard.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/alarm-redist/redist/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://alarm-redist.github.io/redist/, https://github.com/alarm-redist/redist
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: OpenMPI, gmp, libxml2, python, C++11
Language: en-US
Citation: redist citation info
Materials: README NEWS ChangeLog
CRAN checks: redist results

Documentation:

Reference manual: redist.pdf
Vignettes: Common Arguments to 'redist' Functions
Map Pre-processing for Special Constraints
Redistricting with Flip MCMC
MPI / Slurm Sample Scripts
Introduction to redist

Downloads:

Package source: redist_4.0.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: redist_4.0.1.zip, r-release: redist_4.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: redist_4.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): redist_4.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): redist_4.0.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): redist_4.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): redist_4.0.1.tgz
Old sources: redist archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: geomander

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