read.IN: Function to read a CHILD input file.

In coffeemuggler/RCHILD: Functions for flexible use of the landscape evolution model CHILD

Description

This function reads the parameters of a CHILD input file (*.in) and writes them to an S4-object. Non-specified parameters are assigned NA.

Usage

read.IN(IN)

Arguments

IN	(character scalar) Name of the CHILD input file to be read, with extention.

Details

There may occur a warning message (In initialize(value, ...) : NAs introduced by coercion). This is the result of non-conform characters in the input-file such as brackets and space-separated words. This warning message does not change the content of the created S4-object.
It is important to specify OPINTRVL above TSOPINTRVL in the input-file to read. This is due to the text pattern matching algorithm. All other parameters may be specified in any order desired.

Value

An S4-object with all possible parameters as separate slots. Empty parameters are assgined NA.

Author(s)

Michael Dietze

References

CSDMS website. http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Model:CHILD.
Tucker, GE. 2010. CHILD Users Guide for version R9.4.1. http://csdms.colorado.edu/mediawiki/images/Child_users_guide.pdf
Tucker, GE., Lancaster, ST., Gasparini, NM., Bras, RL. 2001. The Channel-Hillslope Integrated Landscape Development (CHILD) Model. In Harmon, RS., Doe, W.W. III (eds). Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modeling. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 349-388.

See Also

write.IN, read.CHILD

Examples

# hillslope1.in <- read.IN("hillslope1")

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