On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Jesse Robinson <jrobi...@syr.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to R-help, although I am a frequent user of its resources. I am > using the package REACTRAN to run some relatively simple transport modeling > (which we hope will evolve greater functionality over time). I would like to > optimize model parameters to match observed field data, and am interested in > using UCODE_2005 for this, which our lab has previously used to great > success. > > The problem: creating the template and input files from R poses difficulty, > as the position of elements (strings, numerics, observation data and labels) > have to be exact in terms of spacing and width. Is there a package or > resource available that can help printing instruction files that simplify > this? You can imagine that if 5 spaces were required between variables in > rows, then 7 between the next, then 9, etc. this would be challenging.
Have you come across the write.fwf() function before? It might make that much easier. Cheers, Michael > Example (pasting here distorts space width): > > jtf ! # FREE FORMAT > 5.1 2.7 50. # HeadLeft HeadRight > WidthOfModel > !K ! !w ! # UCODE will Substitute K and W > with many signigifcant figures > > Thanks very much for any suggestions! > Jesse > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Creation-of-text-files-for-use-with-UCODE-2005-tp4643151.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
