runArgusBatchFile: runArgusBatchFile

In sdcTable: Methods for Statistical Disclosure Control in Tabular Data

runArgusBatchFile

Description

allows to run batch-files for tau argus given the path to an executable of argus. The provided batch input files can either be created using function createArgusInput or can be arbitrarily created. In the latter case, argument obj should not be specified and not output is returned, the script is just executed in tau-argus.

Usage

runArgusBatchFile(
  obj = NULL,
  batchF,
  exe = "C:\\Tau\\TauArgus.exe",
  batchDataDir = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

obj	NULL or an object of class sdcProblem-class that was used to generate the batchfile for argus. If not NULL, this object is used to create correct variable names. Else, only the output from tau-Argus is read and returned as a data.table. In this case it is possible to run tau-Argus on arbitrarily created batch-files.
batchF	a filepath to an batch-input file created by e.g. createArgusInput.
exe	(character) file-path to tau-argus executable
batchDataDir	if different from NULL, this directory is used to look for input-file and writes output files to. This helps to use relative paths in batch input files.
verbose	(logical) if TRUE, some additional information is printed to the prompt

Value

a data.table containing the protected table or an error in case the batch-file was not solved correctly if the batch-file was created using sdcTable (argument obj) was specified. In case an arbitrarily batch-file has been run, NULL is returned.

Note

in case a custom batch-file is used as input (e.g obj is NULL), this functions does currently not try to read in any tables to the system.

sdcTable documentation built on Aug. 11, 2023, 9:06 a.m.