The R package PBSadmb gives complete R support to the external program AD Model Builder, released into the public domain in 2009. The program offers users a remarkably efficient tool for estimating parameters and their uncertainty, based on complex nonlinear statistical models.
In a standard ADMB installation, users would interact with the program via a DOS command shell (in Windows) or a bash shell (in Linux or Mac OS X). The package PBSadmb makes it possible to interact entirely from an R console, as a common interface for all operating systems. A single R script can encapsulate commands to ADMB, as well as all analyses that follow. The package includes protocols for writing code to make the integration between R and ADMB almost seamless.
PBSadmb also provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that facilitates the steps required for a complete ADMB analysis. Both new and experienced users can use the GUI for tutorial and educational purposes.
You can obtain PBSadmb from the Comprehensive R Archive Network. Always use the current version of PBSadmb with the most recent version of PBSmodelling, another package available from CRAN.
PBSadmb represents just one of a series of R packages developed at the
Pacific Biological Station
in Nanaimo, British Columbia. A more advanced version of PBSadmb might be
available on GitHub. Any evolving
package (Windows binary and source tarball) is built after using CRAN's rigorous
R CMD check --as-cran routine (on a 64-bit Windows 7 system) and posted to
Google Drive.
Jon T. Schnute, Scientist Emeritus, Nanaimo BC
Alex Couture-Beil, Software Engineer, Victoria BC
Rowan Haigh, Program Head -- Offshore Rockfish
Pacific Biological Station (PBS), Fisheries & Oceans Canada (DFO), Nanaimo BC
locus opus: Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS), Sidney BC
Last modified Rd: 2018-10-01