# \#package-extension **URL:** https://community.epinowcast.org/tag/package-extension/5.md [Latest](https://community.epinowcast.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.epinowcast.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.epinowcast.org/tags.md) --- ## [Update: a simple reference model for nowcasting](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/update-a-simple-reference-model-for-nowcasting/332)
**Author:** [@kejohnson9](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/kejohnson9)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [1 September 2025 15:10 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/update-a-simple-reference-model-for-nowcasting/332 "2025-09-01T15:10:11Z")
Following up from this first (!) epinowcast forum post with a bit of a project update. The baselinenowcast R package now contains low-level modular functions that can be used to produce nowcasts from a reporting triangle… --- ## [Include a simple reference model](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/include-a-simple-reference-model/34)
**Author:** [@johannes](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/johannes)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [30 June 2025 20:50 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/include-a-simple-reference-model/34 "2025-06-30T20:50:48Z")
I’ve discussed this with @samabbott and we think it would make sense to include a very simple reference model into the package. It should fulfil the following: runs instantly no MCMC or other fancy stuff that can go wr… --- ## [Epidist 0.2.0 and primarycensored 1.1.0](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/epidist-0-2-0-and-primarycensored-1-1-0/273)
**Author:** [@samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/samabbott)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 February 2025 16:25 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/epidist-0-2-0-and-primarycensored-1-1-0/273 "2025-02-12T16:25:23Z")
Combined post for two minor releases from epidist and primarycensored respectively. The main interesting updates to primarycensored is that the documentation was improved based on feedback from @kcharniga2 and there is … --- ## [Primarycensoreddist: Primary Event Censored Distributions in R and Stan](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/primarycensoreddist-primary-event-censored-distributions-in-r-and-stan/245)
**Author:** [@samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/samabbott)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [5 November 2024 05:10 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/primarycensoreddist-primary-event-censored-distributions-in-r-and-stan/245 "2024-11-05T05:10:27Z")
New package that aims to replace epinowcast::simulate\_double\_censored(), the current approaches to handling pmfs in the various convolution packages we support, and provides likelihoods for fitting censored and truncated… --- ## [New package: \`coerceDT\`](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/new-package-coercedt/151)
**Author:** [@pearsonca](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/pearsonca)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [4 October 2023 16:18 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/new-package-coercedt/151 "2023-10-04T16:18:22Z")
@samabbott and I have previously discussed the need for slightly more generic ingest-and-check capability for receiving slimy user input and turning it into pristine data.tables for use in epinowcast. I have enough dema… --- ## [Epinowcast 0.2.1 proposed roadmap](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/epinowcast-0-2-1-proposed-roadmap/131)
**Author:** [@samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/samabbott)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [12 April 2023 21:04 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/epinowcast-0-2-1-proposed-roadmap/131 "2023-04-12T21:04:46Z")
I have some unexpected time spare to do some epinowcast development. I’ve got a proposed roadmap here which I would appreciate some thoughts on (a few of the issues need decisions to be made before code can be implemente… --- ## [0.3.0 Roadmap (scheduled release date: 2023-03-01)](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/0-3-0-roadmap-scheduled-release-date-2023-03-01/111)
**Author:** [@samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/samabbott)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [11 January 2023 13:53 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/0-3-0-roadmap-scheduled-release-date-2023-03-01/111 "2023-01-11T13:53:12Z")
Hi all, As suggested in 0.2.0 package pre-release this is a post to discuss our roadmap for the next release (0.3.0). We need to think about which features we want and over what timescale we aim to put this release out. … --- ## [Create a collection of benchmark data sets](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/create-a-collection-of-benchmark-data-sets/64)
**Author:** [@johannes](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/johannes)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [30 September 2022 13:58 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/create-a-collection-of-benchmark-data-sets/64 "2022-09-30T13:58:08Z")
Title essentially says it all… I feel like new nowcasting methods are generally only tested on one specific data set the respective authors just had on their hands. It’s not like in regular time series forecasting where … --- ## [Modularity via a Stan model generator](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/modularity-via-a-stan-model-generator/45)
**Author:** [@samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/samabbott)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [24 August 2022 20:30 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/modularity-via-a-stan-model-generator/45 "2022-08-24T20:30:29Z")
This is a proposal for a large scale refactor that is not part of the current MVP development timeline. It will need substantially more discussion and potentially significantly more resources than we currently have. I’ll… --- ## [Modular post-processing](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/modular-post-processing/38)
**Author:** [@adrianlison](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/adrianlison)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [23 August 2022 15:48 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/modular-post-processing/38 "2022-08-23T15:48:13Z")
Porting the discussion from here. @samabbott wrote: We now have a modular system of pre-processing and it would be nice if we could do the same for stan code and postprocessing. Of these modular stan code is the harde…