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Populate multiple Stock Synthesis folders with input files

Source: R/populate_multiple_folders.R
populate_multiple_folders.Rd

Creates a set of multiple folders and populates each with SS3 input files such as for the purpose of running a new version of SS3 for an existing set of test models.

Usage

populate_multiple_folders(
  outerdir.old,
  outerdir.new,
  create.dir = TRUE,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  use_ss_new = FALSE,
  copy_par = FALSE,
  exe.dir = NULL,
  exe.file = "ss3",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

outerdir.old

Location of existing outer directory containing subdirectories for each model.

outerdir.new

New outer directory into which the subfolders should be created.

create.dir

Create new outer directory if it doesn't exist already?

overwrite

A logical value specifying if the existing file(s) should be overwritten. The default value is overwrite = FALSE.

use_ss_new

Use .ss_new files instead of original inputs?

copy_par

Copy any .par files found in the individual directories?

exe.dir

Where to get executable to copy to each new subfolder. Options are

  • FALSE to not copy any executables,

  • TRUE to copy executables found in each existing subfolder to the corresponding new subfolder,

  • a path to a central location containing an executable to copy into each new subfolder.

exe.file

Filename of executable to copy into all the subfolders.

verbose

A logical value specifying if output should be printed to the screen.

Value

Returns a table of results indicating which directories were successfully populated with the model input files and/or executables.

See also

Other run functions: copy_SS_inputs(), jitter(), profile(), retro(), run(), tune_comps()

Author

Ian G. Taylor, Kelli F. Johnson

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
populate_multiple_folders(
  outerdir.old = system.file("extdata", package = "r4ss"),
  outerdir.new = file.path(tempdir(), "test")
)
} # }