stone_dump: Dump touchstone from database to CSV.

In vimc/stoner: Support for Building VIMC Montagu Touchstones, using Dettl

Dump touchstone from database to CSV.

Description

Query a database for all information relevant to a particular touchstone (including version), and write to CSV files, which would then be fit for stoner to use as its input to re-populate the database with the same touchstone data. This would be useful in a workflow where you wanted to clone a touchstone, alter a few things, and upload as a new version.

Usage

stone_dump(con, touchstone, path, include_deps = FALSE)

Arguments

con	Active connection to the DB which the data will be dumped from.
touchstone	the touchstone, including version
path	the path where output CSVs should be created.
include_deps	also dump db dependencies that Stoner can't currently add - db_disease.csv, db_modelling_group.csv, db_demographic_statistic_type.csv and db_demographic_source.csv.

Details

Note that this is not "lossless"; only things that Stoner has the capability of adding, will be stored in the CSVs. For example (at present), Stoner does nothing with coverage sets, so while the scenario_descriptions will be saved (since they can be re-added), scenario_description.focal_coverage_set will not be dumped, because Stoner cannot put it back. Coverage sets will need to be wired up separately after a Stoner import, as before.

vimc/stoner documentation built on May 16, 2024, 11:09 a.m.