R package to run VE

[hrlai]

Hi team, I'd like to point you to a work-in-progress R package that to run VE in R. This is very much a personal project to (1) add a bit of reproducibility by recording as many steps in a single script (R) as possible, and (2) to minimise switching between R and the terminal.

You can install it by

pak::pak("hrlai/ve.utils")

Currently it only does four things, but will evolve as I find new functions to add:

1. install ve_example
2. run ve_run through R, plus an option to replacing existing output files (at your own risk!)
3. load the VE output
4. extract a state variable from the loaded output
   I then work on the extracted variable and make figures in R etc.

This is absolutely not necessary, but I find it streamlines my workflow and really encourages me to interact with VE more.

I decided to code it in a personal repo because the goal is to have something crude but working, rather than being blocked by tests and checks. Therefore, please bear in mind that testing is minimal and documentation is barebone! Feel free to report bugs / make feature requests / suggest improments though. I also don't think about this as a prototype for our future R helper package, but I do hope it would resemble the wishlist of an external user.

[arne-exe]

Looks neat!

[hrlai]

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