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PEcAn Use and development

Overview: What is PEcAn?

See the PEcAn README file

Use

Getting Started I: Background

1. The quickest way to get started is to download the virtual machine. The demo provides instructions to get started on your own machine.

• Download Virtual Machine
• Work through Demo

2. Create Accounts

• Redmine
• GitHub

3. Read documentation

• These are in the process of being migrated from Redmine to github (here, below).
• As you are reading, make some edits and/or ask questions where documentation is unclear or incomplete

Getting started II: Using PEcAn

• Settings Files

University of Illinois - Energy Biosciences Institute

• Authenticate computer
• Register your netid with IGB-IT group

Reporting Bugs and Requesting Features

• GitHub
• Reporting Bugs
• Requesting Features

Development

Setup

• Creating A Development Environment
• PEcAn Configuration and Settings Files

Using Git and GitHub

• PEcAn Directory Structure
• Using GitHub and Git

R Development

• Coding Style
• Documentation
• Testing
• Package Data
• Logging, Warnings, and Error Messages

References