This repository is a collection of functions and code usable to run cellular automata simulations in R. The aim is to develop it into a valid and distributable R-package.
For now, it contains standalone files with examples that were published in peer-review articles:
- Conway's game of life: version1. This is the most famous cellular automaton. Read more about it on Wikipedia.org.
- A vegetation facilitation model (Kéfi et al. 2008): version1. This is Sonias application of cellular automata to simulate spatial vegetation structure from simple assumptions on facilitation. The cellular automata used in cascade are building upon this model.
You will need R to run the code. Download the latest version for your operating system from here and install it. It is a command line based program. You just copy phrases or lines of code into the R terminal and they immediately return a value. For more convenient use of R, I recommend using an integrated development environment (IDE) such as RStudio.
You could manipulate the R code with any text editor and copy the lines of code to the R terminal. Chose whatever you prefer to open and manipulate the files. However, for R there is a very convenient programming environment called RStudio. It provides you with all you need to use R, like the documentation of functions, a file browser and a preview of the available R objects.
If you like to create animated gifs as a visualisation of the simulation you will need to install another little program called ImageMagick. You can download it here. Install it whereever you like, but you need to make sure
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