PCSinR
The PCSinR package contains all necessary functions for building and simulation Parallel Constraint Satisfaction (PCS) network models within R.
PCS models are an increasingly used framework throughout psychology: They provide quantitative predictions in a variety of paradigms, ranging from word and letter recognition, for which they were originally developed (McClelland & Rumelhart, 1981; Rumelhart & McClelland, 1982), to complex judgments and decisions (Glöckner & Betsch, 2008; Glöckner, Hilbig, & Jekel, 2014), and many other applications besides.
Installation
- The current stable version is available via CRAN, and can be installed by running
install.packages("PCSinR")
. - You can install the latest development version directly from GitHub with the
devtools
package. To do so, please rundevtools::install_github("felixhenninger/PCSinR@master")
.
Usage
The functions in this package simulate a PCS network, given an interconnection matrix. Methods for creating such a matrix from the most common models are forthcoming.
Once a connection matrix has been specified, the model can be simulated easily using the most common parameter set.
require(PCSinR)
#> Loading required package: PCSinR
interconnections <- matrix(
c( 0.0000, 0.1015, 0.0470, 0.0126, 0.0034, 0.0000, 0.0000,
0.1015, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0100, -0.0100,
0.0470, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0100, -0.0100,
0.0126, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0100, -0.0100,
0.0034, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, -0.0100, 0.0100,
0.0000, 0.0100, 0.0100, 0.0100, -0.0100, 0.0000, -0.2000,
0.0000, -0.0100, -0.0100, -0.0100, 0.0100, -0.2000, 0.0000 ),
nrow=7
)
result <- PCS_run_from_interconnections(interconnections)
A common simulation result concerns the number of iterations needed until convergence is reached.
result$convergence
#> default
#> 116
The output also contains a log of the model states across all iterations. Here, we examine just the final state.
result$iterations[nrow(result$iterations),]
#> iteration energy node_1 node_2 node_3 node_4 node_5 node_6 node_7
#> 117 116 -0.2916358 1 0.5293124 0.3669084 0.1906411 -0.07023219 0.5477614 -0.5477614
General Information
The PCSinR
package is developed and maintained by Felix Henninger. It is published under the GNU General Public License (version 3 or later). The NEWS file documents the most recent changes.
This work was supported by the University of Mannheim’s Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, which is funded by the German Research Foundation.