# R-simmer

**simmer** is a process-oriented and trajectory-based Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) package for R. Designed to be a generic framework like [SimPy](https://simpy.readthedocs.org) or [SimJulia](http://simjuliajl.readthedocs.org), it leverages the power of [Rcpp](http://www.rcpp.org/) to boost the performance and turning DES in R feasible. As a noteworthy characteristic, simmer exploits the concept of _trajectory_: a common path in the simulation model for entities of the same type. It is pretty flexible and simple to use, and leverages the chaining/piping workflow introduced by the [magrittr](https://github.com/smbache/magrittr) package.