villager is up on CRAN

Shout out to my colleagues on the SeibalSim Project, Gerardo Aldana (UCSB), Toni Gonzalez (UCSB), and especially Tommy Thelen (NCEAS) for getting this thing ready for primetime. The new R package, villager, is a great new tool to carry out agent-based modeling work. It is designed for archaeologists and non-expert modelers to test their ideas from the field, from our collaborators’ experience in Mesoamerica, but it will work just as well anywhere (or “any-why”, as there’s no explicit georeferencing built in).