Source the functions supplied to setupProject() so they are available to subsequent setup* steps and to the user's session.

setupFunctions(
  functions,
  name,
  sideEffects,
  paths,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  envir = parent.frame(),
  callingEnv = sys.frame(-2),
  verbose = getOption("Require.verbose", 1L),
  dots,
  defaultDots,
  ...
)

Arguments

functions

A set of function definitions to be used within setupProject. These will be returned as a list element. If function definitions require non-base packages, prefix the function call with the package e.g., terra::rast. When using setupProject, the functions argument is evaluated after paths, so it cannot be used to define functions that help specify paths.

name

Optional. If supplied, the name of the project. If not supplied, an attempt will be made to extract the name from the paths[["projectPath"]]. If this is a GitHub project, then it should indicate the full Github repository and branch name, e.g., "PredictiveEcology/WBI_forecasts@ChubatyPubNum12"

sideEffects

Optional. This can be an expression or one or more file names or a code chunk surrounded by {...}. If a non-text file name is specified (e.g., not .txt or .R currently), these files will simply be downloaded, using their relative path as specified in the github notation. They will be downloaded or accessed locally at that relative path. If these file names represent scripts (*.txt or .R), this/these will be parsed and evaluated, but nothing is returned (i.e., any assigned objects are not returned). This is intended to be used for operations like cloud authentication or configuration functions that are run for their side effects only.

paths

a list with named elements, specifically, modulePath, projectPath, packagePath and all others that are in SpaDES.core::setPaths() (i.e., inputPath, outputPath, scratchPath, cachePath, rasterTmpDir). Each of these has a sensible default, which will be overridden but any user supplied values. See setup.

overwrite

Logical vector or character vector, however, only getModule will respond to a vector of values. If length-one TRUE, then all files that were previously downloaded will be overwritten throughout the sequence of setupProject – including those downloaded via sideEffects. If a length > 1 logical or character vector, these will be passed to getModule: only the named modules will be overwritten or the logical vector of the modules. NOTE: if length > 1, no other file specified anywhere in setupProject will be overwritten except a module matching the vector names() (because only setupModules is currently responsive to a vector). To have fine grained control, a user can just manually delete a file, then rerun.

envir

The environment where setupProject is called from. Defaults to parent.frame() which should be fine in most cases and user shouldn't need to set this

callingEnv

The environment from which the function was called. Defaults to sys.frame(-2) which represents the case where the inner setup* functions are called inside setupProject, which was called by a user.

verbose

Numeric or logical indicating how verbose should the function be. If -1 or -2, then as little verbosity as possible. If 0 or FALSE, then minimal outputs; if 1 or TRUE, more outputs; 2 even more. NOTE: in Require function, when verbose >= 2, also returns details as if returnDetails = TRUE (for backwards compatibility).

dots

Any other named objects passed as a list a user might want for other elements.

defaultDots

A named list of any arbitrary R objects. These can be supplied to give default values to objects that are otherwise passed in with the ..., i.e., not specifically named for these setup* functions. If named objects are supplied as top-level arguments, then the defaultDots will be overridden. This can be particularly useful if the arguments passed to ... do not always exist, but rely on external e.g., batch processing to optionally fill them. See examples.

...

further named arguments that acts like objects, but a different way to specify them. These can be anything. The general use case is to create the objects that are would be passed to SpaDES.core::simInit, or SpaDES.core::simInitAndSpades, (e.g. studyAreaName or objects) or additional objects to be passed to the simulation (in older versions of SpaDES.core, these were passed as a named list to the objects argument). Order matters. These are sequentially evaluated, and also any arguments that are specified before the named arguments e.g., name, paths, will be evaluated prior to any of the named arguments, i.e., "at the start" of the setupProject. If placed after the first named argument, then they will be evaluated at the end of the setupProject, so can access all the packages, objects, etc.

Value

setupFunctions returns NULL. All functions will be placed in envir.

Details

setupFunctions will source the functions supplied, with a parent environment being the internal temporary environment of the setupProject, i.e., they will have access to all the objects in the call.

See also

setupProject() for the high-level wrapper, setup_family for an overview.

Examples