Create an odin model — odin • odin

Create an odin model from a file, text string(s) or expression. The odin_ version is a "standard evaluation" escape hatch.

odin(x, verbose = NULL, target = NULL, workdir = NULL, validate = NULL,
  pretty = NULL, skip_cache = NULL, compiler_warnings = NULL,
  debug_enable = NULL, no_check_unused_equations = NULL, options = NULL)

odin_(x, verbose = NULL, target = NULL, workdir = NULL,
  validate = NULL, pretty = NULL, skip_cache = NULL,
  compiler_warnings = NULL, debug_enable = NULL,
  no_check_unused_equations = NULL, options = NULL)

Arguments

x: Either the name of a file to read, a text string (if length is greater than 1 elements will be joined with newlines) or an expression.
verbose: Logical scalar indicating if the compilation should be verbose. Defaults to the value of the option odin.verbose or FALSE otherwise.
target: Compilation target. Options are "c", "r" or "js", defaulting to the option odin.target or "c" otherwise.
workdir: Directory to use for any generated files. This is only relevant for the "c" target. Defaults to the value of the option odin.workdir or tempdir() otherwise.
validate: Validate the model's intermediate representation against the included schema. Normally this is not needed and is intended primarily for development use. Defaults to the value of the option odin.validate or FALSE otherwise.
pretty: Pretty-print the model's intermediate representation. Normally this is not needed and is intended primarily for development use. Defaults to the value of the option odin.pretty or FALSE otherwise.
skip_cache: Skip odin's cache. This might be useful if the model appears not to compile when you would expect it to. Hopefully this will not be needed often. Defaults to the option odin.skip_cache or FALSE otherwise.
compiler_warnings: Previously this attempted detection of compiler warnings (with some degree of success), but is currently ignored. This may become supported again in a future version depending on underlying support in pkgbuild.
debug_enable: Enable debugging commands in generated code (currently print()). If TRUE then these are generated by odin targets that support them, and will generally make your program slower.
no_check_unused_equations: If TRUE, then don't print messages about unused variables. Defaults to the option odin.no_check_unused_equations or FALSE otherwise.
options: Named list of options. If provided, then all other options are ignored.

Value

An odin_generator object (an R6 class) which can be used to create model instances.

Details

Do not use odin::odin in a package; you almost certainly want to use odin_package instead.

A generated model can return information about itself; odin_ir

User parameters

If the model accepts user parameters, then the parameter to the constructor or the $set_user() method can be used to control the behaviour when unknown user actions are passed into the model. Possible values are the strings stop (throw an error), warning (issue a warning but keep going), message (print a message and keep going) or ignore (do nothing). Defaults to the option odin.unused_user_action, or warning otherwise.

Delay equations with dde

When generating a model one must chose between using the dde package to solve the system or the default deSolve. Future versions may allow this to switch when using run, but for now this requires tweaking the generated code to a point where one must decide at generation. dde implements only the Dormand-Prince 5th order dense output solver, with a delay equation solver that may perform better than the solvers in deSolve. For non-delay equations, deSolve is very likely to outperform the simple solver implemented.

Author

Rich FitzJohn

Examples

## Compile the model; exp_decay here is an R6ClassGenerator and will
## generate instances of a model of exponential decay:
exp_decay <- odin::odin({
  deriv(y) <- -0.5 * y
  initial(y) <- 1
}, target = "r")
#> Generating model in r

## Generate an instance; there are no parameters here so all instances
## are the same and this looks a bit pointless.  But this step is
## required because in general you don't want to have to compile the
## model every time it is used (so the generator will go in a
## package).
mod <- exp_decay$new()

## Run the model for a series of times from 0 to 10:
t <- seq(0, 10, length.out = 101)
y <- mod$run(t)
plot(y, xlab = "Time", ylab = "y", main = "", las = 1)