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Update this when I finish the view templates article.
This simple view shows the import of three commonly used formats - tab-delimited text, comma-separated value (.csv) and the native tool format:
creview emigration[s,ts1,a][] creview immigration[s,ts1,a][] creview mortality[s,ts1,a][] integer $index $index = 1 if $history == true $index = $index + 1 endif if $background == true $index = $index + 1 endif string $importDir $importDir = $home + "/importData" ! default tab-delimited text file in odometer data format emigration[s,ts1,a][$index] = import (; rowTitles=on, dataFile=$importDir/emigration.txt) ! comma delimited text file in coordinate data format immigration[s,ts1,a][$index] = import (; format=coord, allCoord=off, delimiter=",", \ dataFile=$importDir/immigration.csv) ! native TOOL format mortality[s,ts1,a][$index] = import (; format=tool, dataFile=$importDir/mortality)
Import views can also be automatically created out of Documenter. To do this:
Note that this process does not capture the necessary framework indicating the locations of the data sources nor does it specify the correct data formats needed to read the data into the model. This all must be done manually.