clean_up_after_tzar_emulation: Get rid of any traces of running tzar emulation if emulating.
In langfob/tzar: Package for emulating running tzar tool from inside R

Description Usage Details

Need to rename the output directory to something to do with emulation so that if you go back to a pile of directories and find runs with strange output, you know that it's because you were playing around with the code in the emulator. Otherwise, you might have partial results in a run that appeared to have run to completion because tzar DID run to completion on the dummy model.R code that enabled the emulation to build the tzar directories and parameters.

clean_up_after_tzar_emulation(tzar_in_progress_dir_name,
  tzar_emulation_completed_dir_name, copy_model_dot_R_tzar_file,
  full_model_dot_R_DEST_path, emulation_scratch_file_path,
  echo_console_to_temp_file, console_sink_file_info, full_output_dir_with_slash)

Can't do this earlier because you don't know how many things inside the parameters list have the inprogress name built into them by tzar. If you changed the inprogress directory name before running the user code, then the run would be looking for the wrong directory.

However, if tzar itself knew that this was going to be an emulation name, it could just use the emulation name wherever it now uses the in progress name and it could skip the renaming after the run is complete. If those two things were happening, then this cleanup code would be unnecessary.

langfob/tzar documentation built on May 20, 2019, 7:56 p.m.