This R package provides power calculations via internal simulation methods. The package also provides a frontend to the now abandoned PBAT program (developed by Christoph Lange), and reads in the corresponding output and displays results and figures when appropriate. The license of this R package itself is GPL. However, to have the program interact with the PBAT program for some functionality of the R package, users must additionally obtain the PBAT program from Christoph Lange, and accept his license. Both the data analysis and power calculations have command line and graphical interfaces using tcltk.

Generates a position balanced or nearly position balanced block design with given parameters.  This package can also convert a given proper and equireplicate block design into a position balanced or nearly position balanced block design.

Design and implementation of Percentile-based Shewhart Control Charts for continuous data. Faraz (2019) <doi:10.1002/qre.2384>.

Conducts maximum likelihood analysis and simulation of the
    protracted birth-death model of diversification. See
    Etienne, R.S. & J. Rosindell 2012 <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syr091>;
    Lambert, A., H. Morlon & R.S. Etienne 2014, <doi:10.1007/s00285-014-0767-x>;
    Etienne, R.S., H. Morlon & A. Lambert 2014, <doi:10.1111/evo.12433>.

A simplified, efficient, interface to MPI for HPC clusters. It is
        a derivation and rethinking of the Rmpi package. pbdMPI embraces the
        prevalent parallel programming style on HPC clusters. Beyond the
        interface, a collection of functions for global work with
        distributed data and resource-independent RNG reproducibility is
        included. It is based on S4 classes and methods.

Utilizing scalable linear algebra packages mainly
        including 'BLACS', 'PBLAS', and 'ScaLAPACK' in double precision via
        'pbdMPI' based on 'ScaLAPACK' version 2.0.2.

'ZeroMQ' is a well-known library for high-performance
    asynchronous messaging in scalable, distributed applications.  This
    package provides high level R wrapper functions to easily utilize
    'ZeroMQ'. We mainly focus on interactive client/server programming
    frameworks. For convenience, a minimal 'ZeroMQ' library (4.2.2)
    is shipped with 'pbdZMQ', which can be used if no system installation
    of 'ZeroMQ' is available.  A few wrapper functions compatible with
    'rzmq' are also provided.