Export hydroPSO input files to PEST

This function exports the content of the hydroPSO input files ‘ParamRanges.txt’ and ‘ParamFiles.txt’ to PEST, into a single ‘.pst’ files with corresponding ‘.tpl’ and ‘.ins’ files

Usage

hydroPSO2pest(param.files="ParamFiles.txt", param.ranges="ParamRanges.txt",
              observations.fname="Observations.txt", exe.fname, 
              drty.model=getwd(), pst.fname="hydroPSO2PEST.pst", verbose=TRUE)

Arguments

param.files

character, name (full path) of the hydroPSO input file storing the location and names of the model files that have to be modified for each parameter subject to calibration.
By default this file is called ‘ParamFiles.txt’ and -if the full path it is not specified- it is searched for within the ‘PSO.in’ subdirectory of drty.model

param.ranges

character, name (full path) of the hydroPSO input file defining the minimum and maximum boundary values for each one of the parameters to be calibrated
By default this file is called ‘ParamRanges.txt’ and -if the full path it is not specified- it is searched for within the ‘PSO.in’ subdirectory of drty.model

observations.fname

character name (full path) of the hydroPSO output file storing the observed values used during the optimisation.
By default this file is called ‘Observations.txt’ and -if the full path it is not specified- it is searched for within the ‘PSO.out’ subdirectory of drty.model

exe.fname

character, model command line arguments to be entered through a prompted string to execute the user-defined model

drty.model

character, path to the executable file of the model specified in exe.fname. ALL the files required to run the model have to be located within this directory (however, input files may be located elsewhere)

pst.fname

character, with the name of the output ‘.pst’ file

verbose

logical, indicates if progress messages are to be printed. By default verbose=TRUE

Value

A single text textfilet mo be used as input file by PEST. The name of the output text file is pst.fname and it is located within thedrty.model directory.

References

'PEST' refers to a software package and to a number of suites of utility programs that support it. Collectively, these are essential tools in decision-support environmental modelling. More information on https://pesthomepage.org/.

Author

Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, mzb.devel@gmail.com

See also

pest2hydroPSO, hydroPSO