Software

R packages and other software developed by the group

Reusable tools and packages developed by the group. See also our ongoing projects and publications.

Most packages are on CRAN. The rest can be installed from our r-universe:

install.packages(
  "packagename",
  repos = c("https://epiforecasts.r-universe.dev", getOption("repos"))
)
EpiNow2 hex logoepinowcast hex logoscoringutils hex logosocialmixr hex logorbi hex logo
ringbp hex logobaselinenowcast hex logoepichains hex logolopensemble hex logoepimixr hex logorbi.helpers hex logo
qrensemble hex logocontactsurveys hex logocfrnow hex logodistspec hex logoforecastbaselines hex logo

EpiNow2

Estimate Realtime Case Counts and Time-varying Epidemiological Parameters

R · Updated Sep 2026 · 835 CRAN downloads/month

Sam Abbott Sebastian Funk James M. Azam James Munday Kaitlyn Johnson Nikos Bosse Sophie Meakin

epinowcast

A modular Bayesian framework for real-time infectious disease surveillance. Provides tools for nowcasting, reproduction number estimation, delay estimation, and forecasting from data subject to reporting delays, right-truncation, missing data, and incomplete ascertainment

R · Updated Sep 2026
Part of epinowcast

Sam Abbott Sebastian Funk James M. Azam Katharine Sherratt Kaitlyn Johnson Nikos Bosse

scoringutils

Utilities for Scoring and Assessing Predictions

R · Updated Sep 2026 · 989 CRAN downloads/month

Nikos Bosse Sam Abbott Sebastian Funk James M. Azam Toshiaki Asakura Katharine Sherratt

socialmixr

Derive social mixing matrices from survey data.

R · Updated Sep 2026 · 1,013 CRAN downloads/month

Sebastian Funk Alexis Robert James M. Azam Joshua Lambert

rbi

Bayesian inference with state-space models using LibBi.

R · Updated Sep 2026 · 277 CRAN downloads/month

Sebastian Funk

ringbp

Simulate infectious disease transmission with contact tracing

R · Updated Aug 2026 · 314 CRAN downloads/month

Sebastian Funk Sam Abbott Joshua Lambert

baselinenowcast

Baseline nowcasting methods for correcting reporting delays in epidemiological data.

R · Updated Jul 2026 · 270 CRAN downloads/month
Part of epinowcast

Kaitlyn Johnson Sam Abbott James M. Azam Sebastian Funk

epichains

Methods for simulating and analysing the sizes and lengths of infectious disease transmission chains from branching process models

R · Updated Aug 2026 · 284 CRAN downloads/month
Part of epiverse-trace

James M. Azam Sebastian Funk

lopensemble

Model stacking for predictive ensembles

HTML · Updated Aug 2026 · On r-universe

Nikos Bosse Sebastian Funk Sam Abbott

epimixr

Epidemiological analysis using social mixing matrices

R · Updated Sep 2026 · On r-universe

Sebastian Funk

rbi.helpers

Helper functions for inference with LibBi. Building on the rbi library.

R · Updated Aug 2026 · 268 CRAN downloads/month

Sebastian Funk

qrensemble

Function and example for quantile regression average

R · Updated Aug 2026 · On r-universe

Sebastian Funk Sam Abbott

contactsurveys

Download and access social contact data

R · Updated Sep 2026 · 385 CRAN downloads/month

Sebastian Funk Alexis Robert

cfrnow

Real-time case fatality ratio from a line list via a Bayesian mixture-cure survival model

R · Updated Aug 2026 · On r-universe

Sebastian Funk

distspec

Define probability distributions with certain or uncertain parameters

R · Updated Sep 2026 · 345 CRAN downloads/month

Sebastian Funk Sam Abbott

forecastbaselines

forecastbaselines: R interface to ForecastBaselines.jl

R · Updated Aug 2026 · On r-universe

Sebastian Funk