Re: [Swarm-Support] Subject: alternaties to inFile and outFile for ascii text?

[Steve Railsback]

Paul Box wrote:
> alternaties to inFile and outFile for ascii text?

Hi Paul,

Here's what we do:

a. Read in parameters using the Swarm ObjectLoader. It is deprecated, 
but very handy for this. (If anyone doesn't know how to use it, say so 
and I'll explain.)

b. Read in time series input to models using a home-made, but elaborate 
and very useful, class called TimeSeriesInputManager. You put your data 
in a standard format (e.g., by using a spreadsheet) and 
TimeSeriesInputManager goes and gets the values for any particular date 
or time.

c. Write output files using another home-made but nice class called 
BreakoutReporter. It provides summary statistics on collection of 
objects, broken out by up to five categories.

TimeSeriesInputManager (and the TimeManager it works with) and 
BreakoutReporter are on the Software page of our site 
www.humboldt.edu/~ecomodel

Steve

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