InSilicoVA

To install the package from CRAN, run the script:

install.packages("InSilicoVA")

To install the github testing version of InSilicoVA, run the script

library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("verbal-autopsy-software/InSilicoVA", subdir = "InSilicoVA")

To use InSilicoVA, 'rJava' package is required and it requires Java 6 or above properly installed and linked to R. See the user manual for more detail.

Reference

Tyler H. McCormick, Zehang Richard Li, Clara Calvert, Amelia C. Crampin, Kathleen Kahn, and Samuel J. Clark. Probabilistic Cause-of-death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies. Journal of the American Statistical Association 111.515 (2016): 1036-1049.

What's New

• CRAN version
• Current developer version

Additional information when running large models

If you hit the error message compaining about java heap size, e.g. java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Try start a new R session and run this line of code before calling library(openVA) or library(InSilicoVA):

options(java.parameters = c("-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC"))