get_contents: Get the contents of a simulator directory

In simulator: An Engine for Running Simulations

Get the contents of a simulator directory

Description

This function gives detailed information about what is being stored in the "files" directory. In particular, it gives the complete paths for all the draws, outputs, and evals files. This can be useful in situations in which the draws or outputs files are no longer needed and take up a lot of memory. In such a case a user could delete these files with a command such as system(paste(c("rm", contents$out_files), collapse = " ")). That said, one must be cautious in deleting these files since the simulator generally assumes that earlier stages' files will be available and so deleting these may cause errors. However, if one is essentially finished with a simulation and evaluated metrics have been computed and if the methods' raw outputs are taking up a lot of disk space, then one might consider deleting the out_files (and/or the draws_files).

Usage

get_contents(dir = ".", out_loc = "out")

Arguments

dir	name of the directory where directory named "files" exists
out_loc	a length-1 character vector that gives location (relative to model's path) that method outputs are stored.This can be useful for staying organized when multiple simulations are based on the same Model and Draws objects. Usually this is just "out"

simulator documentation built on Feb. 16, 2023, 9:34 p.m.