edit_apsim: Edit an APSIM (Classic) Simulation

In apsimx: Inspect, Read, Edit and Run 'APSIM' "Next Generation" and 'APSIM' Classic

Edit an APSIM (Classic) Simulation

Description

This function allows editing of an APSIM (Classic) simulation file.

Usage

edit_apsim(
  file,
  src.dir = ".",
  wrt.dir = NULL,
  node = c("Clock", "Weather", "Soil", "SurfaceOrganicMatter", "MicroClimate", "Crop",
    "Manager", "Outputfile", "Other"),
  soil.child = c("Metadata", "Water", "Physical", "OrganicMatter", "Chemical",
    "Analysis", "InitialWater", "Sample", "SWIM"),
  manager.child = NULL,
  parm = NULL,
  value = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  edit.tag = "-edited",
  parm.path = NULL,
  root,
  verbose = TRUE,
  check.length = TRUE
)

Arguments

file	file ending in .apsim to be edited
src.dir	directory containing the .apsim file to be edited; defaults to the current working directory
wrt.dir	should be used if the destination directory is different from the src.dir
node	either ‘Clock’, ‘Weather’, ‘Soil’, ‘SurfaceOrganicMatter’, ‘MicroClimate’, ‘Crop’, ‘Manager’, ‘Outputfile’ or ‘Other’
soil.child	specific soil component to be edited
manager.child	specific manager component to be edited (not implemented yet)
parm	parameter to be edited
value	new values for the parameter to be edited
overwrite	logical; if TRUE the old file is overwritten, a new file is written otherwise
edit.tag	if the file is edited a different tag from the default ‘-edited’ can be used.
parm.path	path to the attribute to edit when node is ‘Other’
root	supply the node postion in the case of multiple simulations such as factorials.
verbose	whether to print information about successful edit
check.length	check whether vectors are of the correct length

Details

The variables specified by parm within the .apsim file specified by file in the source directory src.dir are edited. The old values are replaced with value, which is a list that has the same number of elements as the length of the vector parm. The current .apsim file will be overwritten if overwrite is set to TRUE; otherwise the file ‘file’ -edited.apsim will be created. If (verbose = TRUE) then the name of the written file is returned.

When node equals Outputfile, the editing allows to add variables, but not to remove them at the moment.

Value

(when verbose=TRUE) complete file path to edited .apsimx file is returned as a character string. As a side effect this function creates a new (XML) .apsimx file.

Note

The components that can be edited are restricted becuase this is better in preventing errors of editing unintended parts of the file. The disadvantage is that there is less flexibility compared to the similar function in the 'apsimr' package.

Examples

## This example will read one of the examples distributed with APSIM
## but write to a temporary directory

tmp.dir <- tempdir()

extd.dir <- system.file("extdata", package = "apsimx")
edit_apsim("Millet", src.dir = extd.dir, wrt.dir = tmp.dir, 
           node = "Clock",
           parm = "start_date", value = "01/02/1940")

## Editing all of the KL values for Millet
pp.KL <- inspect_apsim_xml("Millet.apsim", src.dir = extd.dir, 
                  parm = "SoilCrop[8]/KL")
                 
kls <- seq(0.08, 0.2, length.out = 11)

edit_apsim("Millet.apsim", 
           src.dir = extd.dir,
           wrt.dir = tmp.dir,
           node = "Other", 
           parm.path = pp.KL,
           value = kls)
           
## Check that it was properly edited

inspect_apsim("Millet-edited.apsim", 
              src.dir = tmp.dir,
              node = "Soil",
              soil.child = "Water",
              parm = "KL")

              

apsimx documentation built on March 18, 2022, 7:52 p.m.