R: Database of ADMB Command Scripts

ADMBcmd {PBSadmb}

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Database of ADMB Command Scripts

Description

Command scripts for ADMB's convert, compile, and link routines

Usage

data(ADMBcmd)

Format

A data frame with the following 8 variables:

OS: operating system
Comp: C++ compiler type
Index: index that indicates convert, compile or link with options: safe or optimize, random effects or normal.
Step: description of processing step (convert, compile, or link)
Safe: logical: if TRUE use safe mode; if not, use optimise mode.
RanEff: logical: if TRUE use random effects model; if not, use normal model.
Command: the command suitable for specified combination of Step, Safe, and RanEff
Comment: comment about the command, if any

Details

This database represents a compilation of ADMB scripts for various operating systems and compilers. A user's project normally starts with a template file, named with a prefix to denote the project and a standard suffix .tpl. This file must go through three processing steps: conversion to C/C++ code, compilation by a specified compiler, and linking with ADMB libraries.

The reulting command depends on the operating system, compiler, processing step, and two binary options (safe/optimized; normal/random effects). In principle, the three processing steps and two binary options give 3x2x2=12 possibilities. However, conversion doesn't depend on the “safe/optimized” choice, and compilation doesn't depend on “normal/random effects”. This reduction leaves only 8 possibilities, specified by an index in the range 1:8.

A variable in a Command string is designated by the prefix character @. We use this for convenient string substitution by parseCmd, the function that translates database strings into actual ADMB commands.

The subdirectoy .../ADMB/scripts in the installed package contains an Excel spreadsheet, used as the source file for this database. Currently, our database is incomplete, and we heartily encourage the ADMB community to make contributions for additional operating systems and compilers.

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