Intro CLI Tutorial

MESS - Massive Eco-Evolutionary Synthesis Simulations

Example CLI:

## Create a new params file and populate with default values
MESS -n neutral_model

<edit params-neutral_model.txt>

## Generate 10000 simulations
MESS -p params-neutral_model.txt -s 10000

## Validate format of empirical data from a directory (proper formatting will be checked)
MESS -i empirical_dir

## Perform abc model selection (competition model also previously simulated)
## Both neutral and competition models should have been simulated for a similar
## number of replicates, MESS will check for this.
MESS -i empirical_dir --abc params-neutral_model.txt params-competition_model.txt

## Perform random forest model selection (competition model also previously simulated)
MESS -i empirical_dir --RF params-neutral_model.txt params-competition_model.txt

## Estimate parameters of empirical data for a given model
## TODO: Figure out how to specify which parameters to estimate?
MESS -i empirical_dir -p params-neutral_model.txt --estimate_params

## Generate fancy plots through time for a given model. This will
## only run one realization and create several animated gifs <slow>
MESS -p params-neutral_model.txt --fancy-plots

The code is on github