MAXIM-R

MAXIM-R is a collection of R programs intended to be used with the book Modeling, Analysis, Design and Control of Stochastic Systems by V G Kulkarni. The original collection is written in MATLAB, the translation is done by TJ Guo. This is a guide intended for STOR 445 students at UNC-CH on how to use MAXIM-R.

Prerequisite:

Download R and RStudio at the following links:

Download R

Download RStudio

After installing the programs, open RStudio and type in the following commands in the console to download devtools, a required package for installing this package.

install.packages("devtools")
library("devtools")

After loading devtools, type in the following command in the console to download this package:

install_github("cothurn/MAXIM-R")

Now you are ready to use this package!

Using the package:

First, brush up on general R syntax: One of the many R tutortials out there

To use the functions in the package, just type in the console/R file the function you want to call, followed by the arguments of the function in parenthesis. Example:

> bincdf(10,0.5)
[1] 0.0009765625 0.0107421875 0.0546875000 0.1718750000 0.3769531250 0.6230468750 0.8281250000 0.9453125000
[9] 0.9892578125 0.9990234375 1.0000000000

You can use variables as arguments of the function/store the result of a function call as a variable if the result is not a plot. To see a complete list of available functions, please check the following section. You can also type in a question mark followed by the name of the function in RStudio console for a more detailed documentation and examples of its usage:

?bincdf

List of functions

probability

DTMC

CTMC WIP

General models and queuing models WIP