Test Surveys by Simulating Spatially-Correlated Populations R package SimSurvey version 0.1.8 CRAN Task View: OfficialStatistics (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=OfficialStatistics) Simulate age-structured populations that vary in space and time and explore the efficacy of a range of built-in or user-defined sampling protocols to reproduce the population parameters of the known population. (See Regular et al. (2020) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0232822> for more details). Software Depends: R (>= 4.1.0) Imports: sf, stars, data.table, progress, doParallel, parallel, foreach, plotly, rlang, lifecycle, Matrix Suggests: fields, rmarkdown, flexdashboard, shiny, crosstalk, htmltools, viridis, lme4, ggplot2, INLA, INLAspacetime, knitr, bezier Paul Regular <Paul.Regular@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Paul Regular [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0318-2615>), Jonathan Babyn [ctb], Greg Robertson [ctb] GPL-3 2025-09-15 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=SimSurvey doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.SimSurvey