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Import PEST input files to hydroPSO

pest2hydroPSO.Rd

This function imports the PEST input files (a master ‘.pst’ and its corresponding ‘.tpl’ and ‘.ins’) into hydroPSO (‘ParamRanges.txt’ and ‘ParamFiles.txt’)

Usage

pest2hydroPSO(pst.fname, drty.pest=NULL, drty.model=NULL, drty.out="PSO.in",
              param.files="ParamFiles.txt", param.ranges="ParamRanges.txt",
              decimals=5, verbose=TRUE)

Arguments

pst.fname

character, with name of the PEST input file (‘.pst’), which contains all the information regarding parameters, observations and template files (‘.tpl’ and ‘.ins’) used by PEST.

drty.pest

character, path to the executable file of PEST. ALL the files required to run PEST with the model have to be located within this directory (‘.tpl’ and ‘.ins’).

Default value is NULL, which assigns to drty.pest the parent directory of pst.fname.

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

Default value is NULL, which assigns to drty.pest the parent directory of pst.fname.

drty.out

character, name of the directory that will store all the output files produced by this function

Default value is ‘PSO.in’, which creteas a directory called ‘PSO.in’ within the parent directory of pst.fname.

param.files

character, name of the output file that will store the location and names of the model files that have to be modified for each parameter subject to calibration with hydroPSO.

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 of the output file defining the minimum and maximum boundary values for each one of the parameters to be calibrated with hydroPSO.
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.

decimals

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

verbose

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

Value

Two input files for hydroPSO:

param.files

plain text file with the location and names of the model files that have to be modified for each parameter subject to calibration with hydroPSO

param.ranges

plain text file defining the minimum and maximum boundary values for each one of the parameters to be calibrated with hydroPSO

Author

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

See also

hydroPSO2pest, hydroPSO