User's guide to ADMB2R, a set of AD model builder output routines compatible with the R statistics language

"ADMB2R is a collection of AD Model Builder routines for saving complex data structures into a file that can be read in the R statistics environment with a single command. ADMB2R provides both the means to transfer data structures significantly more complex than simple tables, and an archive mechanism to store data for future reference. We developed this software because we write and run computationally intensive numerical models in Fortran, C++, and AD Model Builder. We then analyse results with R. We desired to automate data transfer to speed diagnostics during working-group meetings. We thus developed the ADMB2R interface to write an R data object (of type list) to a plain-text file. The master list can contain any number of matrices, values, dataframes, vectors or lists, all of which can be read into R with a single call to the dget function. This allows easy transfer of structured data from compiled models to R"--Introduction, paragraphs 1 to 3. Jennifer L. Martin, Michael H. Prager, Andi Stephens. "October 2006." "Software version 1.00." Also available online in PDF format. Includes bibliographical references (page 20).