Virtual Laboratory Environment 2.0

A R binding for the VFL (Virtual Laboratory Environment Foundation Library) and VLE (Virtual Laboratory Environment).

This package allows:

• read and write VPZ file from VLE
• launch simulation and launch experimental frames
• update simulation parameters
• update observation

Requirements

• R (≥ 2.10)
• Rtools (≥ 2.10)
• VLE (≥ 2.0)

Getting the code

First, we need to build VLE for both i386 and x86_64. First, we clone the VLE repository:

git clone git://github.com/vle-forge/vle.git

Using http://www.msys2.org/, we install VLE's dependencies both for i386 and x86_64:

pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-i686-cmake
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-i686-gcc
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-i686-make
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-i686-qt5
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-i686-boost
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-i686-libxml2
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-i686-gdb
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-make
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-boost
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-libxml2

Then we build for i386 (adjust the Rtools and R in PATH variable with your installation directory):

set PATH=C:\Rtools\mingw_32\bin;C:\Program Files\R\R-3.3.2\bin\i386;D:\msys64\mingw32\bin
cd vle
mkdir buildvle-rvle-i386
cd buildvle-rvle-i386
cmake.exe -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DWITH_MVLE=OFF -DWITH_CVLE=OFF -DWITH_DOXYGEN=OFF -DWITH_GVLE=OFF -DWITH_WIN32_INSTALLER=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=d:/rvle-bin/32 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..
mingw32-make -j2
mingw32-make install

And for x86_64 (adjust the Rtools and R in PATH variable with your installation directory):

set PATH=C:\Rtools\mingw_64\bin;C:\Program Files\R\R-3.3.2\bin\x86_64;d:\msys64\mingw64\bin
cd vle
mkdir buildvle-rvle-x86_64
cd buildvle-rvle-x86_64
cmake.exe -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DWITH_MVLE=OFF -DWITH_CVLE=OFF -DWITH_DOXYGEN=OFF -DWITH_GVLE=OFF -DWITH_WIN32_INSTALLER=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=d:/rvle-bin/64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..
mingw32-make -j2
mingw32-make install

Once you have met requirements, compiling and installing is simple:

git clone git://github.com/vle-forge/rvle.git
set PATH=C:\Program Files\R\R-3.3.2\bin;d:\msys64\usr\bin;C:\Rtools\bin
set MINGW_PATH=d:/msys64
set VLE_PATH=d:/rvle-bin
R CMD build rvle
R CMD INSTALL --build rvle

Usage

Under R, use help(rvle) to get help. For example:

library(rvle)
f <- rvle.open(file="test_simulation.vpz", pkg="test_port")
result <- rvle.run(f)
checkEquals(class(result$view), "data.frame")

License

This software in GPLv3 or later. See the file COPYING. Some files are under a different license. Check the headers for the copyright info.