Package: socialmixr 0.6.0

Sebastian Funk

socialmixr: Social Mixing Matrices for Infectious Disease Modelling

Methods for sampling contact matrices from diary data for use in infectious disease modelling, as discussed in Mossong et al. (2008) <doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050074>.

Authors:Sebastian Funk [aut, cre], Lander Willem [aut], Hugo Gruson [aut], Nicholas Tierney [aut], Maria Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar [ctb], Carl A. B. Pearson [ctb], Sam Clifford [ctb], Christopher Jarvis [ctb], Alexis Robert [ctb], Niel Hens [ctb], Pietro Coletti [col, dtm], Lloyd Chapman [ctb]

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NEWS

# Install 'socialmixr' in R:

install.packages('socialmixr', repos = c('https://epiforecasts.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/epiforecasts/socialmixr/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://epiforecasts.io

Datasets:

polymod - Social contact data from 8 European countries

On CRAN:

10.76 score 43 stars 2 packages 288 scripts 1.0k downloads 6 mentions 26 exports 37 dependencies

Last updated from:bbf7741f1a (on v0.6.0). Checks:1 ERROR, 8 OK. Indexed: yes.

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Exports:agegroups_to_limits as_contact_survey assign_age_groups check clean compute_matrix contact_age_distribution contact_matrix download_survey get_citation get_survey limits_to_agegroups list_surveys load_survey matrix_plot per_capita pop_age reduce_agegroups split_matrix survey survey_countries survey_country_population symmetrise weigh wpp_age wpp_countries

Dependencies:askpass backports cachem checkmate cli countrycode cpp11 curl data.table fastmap generics glue httr jsonlite lifecycle lubridate magrittr memoise mime oai openssl pillar pkgconfig plyr purrr R6 Rcpp rlang stringi stringr sys tibble timechange utf8 vctrs wpp2017 xml2

Introduction to socialmixr

Sebastian Funk

Rendered fromsocialmixr.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Jun 02 2026.

Last update: 2026-04-23
Started: 2022-06-16

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Subset a contact survey	[.contact_survey
Convert age groups to lower age limits	agegroups_to_limits
Check contact survey data	as_contact_survey
Assign age groups in survey data	assign_age_groups
Check contact survey data	check check.contact_survey
Clean contact survey data	clean clean.contact_survey
Compute contact matrix from prepared survey data	compute_matrix
Extract the empirical age distribution of contacts from a survey	contact_age_distribution
Generate a contact matrix from diary survey data	contact_matrix
Download a survey from its Zenodo repository	download_survey
Citation for a survey	get_citation
Get a survey, either from its Zenodo repository, a set of files, or a survey variable	get_survey
Checks if a character string is a DOI	is_doi
Convert lower age limits to age groups.	limits_to_agegroups
List all surveys available for download	list_surveys
Load a survey from local files	load_survey
Draws an image plot of a contact matrix with a legend strip and the numeric values in the cells.	matrix_plot
Convert a contact matrix to per-capita rates	per_capita
Social contact data from 8 European countries	polymod
Change age groups in population data	pop_age
Reduce the number of age groups given a broader set of limits	reduce_agegroups
Decompose a contact matrix into mean contacts, normalisation and assortativity	split_matrix
Contact survey	survey
List all countries contained in a survey	survey_countries
Get survey country population data	survey_country_population
Symmetrise a contact matrix	symmetrise
Weigh survey participants	weigh
Get age-specific population data according to the World Population Prospects 2017 edition	wpp_age
List all countries and regions for which socialmixr has population data	wpp_countries