>
> Hello,
>
> can anyone tell me if R has any special function for simulating the structure
> of human populations? Something like the genetic algorithm?
> I need to simulate a sample of a population with a specific structure. Is
> there something on R that can help me?
>
As others have pointed out, you need to give us some more details. There is an artile about simulation of ecological dynamics in last December's R News, which may be of some help:
<http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2003-3.pdf>
If you're simulating something like a coalescence process, then it might be easier to use some specialist software. In that case, googling with a few relevant terms might be the way to go.
Bob
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