boids4R: Reynolds-Style Boids and Swarm Simulation
Provides deterministic two- and three-dimensional boids and swarm simulations for R. The package implements Reynolds-style separation, alignment, and cohesion rules with optional obstacles, attractors, predators, species parameters, and reproducible frame export. Simulation state is renderer-neutral; optional adapters can hand frame data to visualization packages such as 'ggWebGL'. The model follows Reynolds (1987) <doi:10.1145/37402.37406>.
| Version: | 0.3.1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1) |
| Imports: | Rcpp |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp |
| Suggests: | ggWebGL (≥ 0.4.0), htmlwidgets, knitr, pkgdown, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: | 2026-05-13 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.boids4R (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Frederic Bertrand 
[cre, aut] |
| Maintainer: | Frederic Bertrand <frederic.bertrand at lecnam.net> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/fbertran/boids4R/issues |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| URL: | https://fbertran.github.io/boids4R/, https://github.com/fbertran/boids4R |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Citation: | boids4R citation info |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | boids4R results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | boids4R.html , boids4R.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Custom Simulation Workflows (source, R code) Flocks, Herds, Swarms, and Schools (source, R code) Getting Started with boids4R (source, R code) Scenario Gallery (source, R code) Swarm Art Creation (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | boids4R_0.3.1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): boids4R_0.3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): boids4R_0.3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available |
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