Dear list members, it seems that the traffic in this list was rather low during the last year, despite the important role that dynamic simulation models currently play in the Corona crisis. R plays a considerable role, both in epidemiological data analysis and SIR, SEIR, SIRD, ... and even individual-based modelling. This is reflected by a series of papers and several blogs, github repositories and discussions at StackOverflow. The latter may also be the reason, why it is so silent here as discussion of source code works well on interactive web pages. On the other hand, there may still be room for mailing lists, so feel free to contribute. We all know that the number of R packages increased quickly on CRAN and Bioconductor, not counting activities on Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket etc. Therefore, I want to? ask you, whether you think that an important package was missed on the DifferentialEquations task view: solvers, model application packages, sensitivity analysis and even individual-based modelling packages. Not all may fit the task view, but I want to make sure that we did not overlook something essential. If you feel that a package of general interest may be missing, please send a short note, how and to which section this package may be added. Decide yourself if you send this note to me or the whole list and please follow the style of one of the other packages. I will then find an agreement with you and Karline (her address is listed on top of the task view) which and how new packages can be added. Thank you! Thomas
Dr. Thomas Petzoldt wiss. Mitarbeiter member of scientific staff Technische Universit?t Dresden Technische Universitaet Dresden Fakult?t Umweltwissenschaften Faculty of Environmental Sciences Institut f?r Hydrobiologie Institute of Hydrobiology Professur f?r Limnologie Chair of Limnology 01062 Dresden 01062 Dresden, Germany https://tu-dresden.de/Members/thomas.petzoldt