Make a new simulation object

Creates an object of class Simulation. In addition to having a name and label, this object consists of a set of references to objects of class ModelRef, DrawsRef, OutputRef, and EvalsRef.

Usage

new_simulation(name, label, dir = ".", refs = list(), save_to_file = TRUE)

Arguments

name

a short name identifier. Must be alphanumeric.

label

a longer, human readable label that can have other characters such as spaces, hyphens, etc.

dir

a directory that reference's directories are relative to

refs

a list containing objects of class ModelRef, DrawsRef, OutputRef, and EvalsRef

save_to_file

whether this new simulation should be saved to file. Default is TRUE. If TRUE, then this simulation can be loaded in a new R session using dir and name.

Details

A Simulation object is the basic unit of a simulation study. Roughly, one can think of it as all the files relevant to a single figure. This might be a single plot or a series of related plots/panels. It could also correspond to a single table. Note that a Simulation object is light-weight even for large simulations because it only stores references to the objects not the objects themselves. The functions model, draws, output, evals can be used to load individual objects of a simulation.

The Simulation object created is saved to a file so that it can be loaded in a new R session. The simulation is saved in dir/files/name.Rdata. Note: while "files" is the default, the name of this directory is from getOption("simulator.files"), which is the value of getOption("simulator.files") when the model was created.

See also

load_simulation save_simulation

Examples

sim <- new_simulation(name = "normal-example",
                       label = "Normal Mean Estimation",
                       dir = tempdir())