[Developers] Fwd: method set_initial_values(...) not working for param_init_number_vector

Johnoel Ancheta johnoel at hawaii.edu
Mon Jun 16 13:46:28 PDT 2014


Working on this now...


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:13 AM, William Stockhausen - NOAA Federal <
william.stockhausen at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Here's Dave's solution to my problem (for some reason he wasn't able to
> post to the developers list). His full solution is attached.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: dave fournier <davef at otter-rsch.com>
> Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Developers] method set_initial_values(...) not working for
> param_init_number_vector
> To: William Stockhausen - NOAA Federal <william.stockhausen at noaa.gov>,
> developers <developers at admb-project.org>
>
>
>
> It appears that this function was some duped code which was never finished
> properly.
> I think it should look like this at the top of the file model48.cpp.
>
> There may also be other set_initial_value functions which were not
> finished.
>
>  void param_init_bounded_number_vector::set_initial_value(const
> double_index_type& _it)
>  {
>    int mmin=indexmin();
>    int mmax=indexmax();
>    for (int i=mmin;i<=mmax;i++)
>    {
>      (*this)(i)=ad_double(_it(i));
>    }
>  }
>
>
>
>
> On 06/16/2014 07:08 AM, William Stockhausen - NOAA Federal wrote:
>
> Hi developers,
>
>  I'm running ADMB 11.1 on MacOSX and Windows 7. I'm trying to set the
> initial values for a param_init_number_vector (p, say) from a dvector (vls,
> say) in a function using the following:
>
>  p.set_initial_value(vls);
>
>  The actual function is:
>
>  void setInitVals(BoundedNumberVectorInfo* pI,
> param_init_bounded_number_vector& p){
>     int np = pI->getSize();
>      if (np){
>         dvector vls = pI->getInitVals();
>         p.set_initial_value(vls);
>         cout<<"vls = "<<vls<<endl;
>          cout<<"p   = "<<p<<endl;
>      }
> }
>
>  where pI is a pointer to an object whose method getInitVals() returns a
> dvector.
>
>  Everything compiles fine, but when I run the code,  the initial values
> for p are not equal to vls (they're equal to the default initial values)
> after running setInits.
>
>  Fortunately this caused my code to produce some really strange results
> so I realized there was a problem. Using the ADMB website, I tracked down
> the following:
>
> The 'set_initial_value' method for param_init_bounded_number_vector is
> defined in model45.cpp as
>
>  00008 00009 <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classparam__init__bounded__vector__vector.html#ad696a4660a01ad50266fcbafa7d3beb7> void param_init_bounded_vector_vector::set_initial_value <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classparam__init__bounded__vector__vector.html#ad696a4660a01ad50266fcbafa7d3beb7>(00010   const double_index_type <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdouble__index__type.html>& _it)00011  {00012     it <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classparam__init__bounded__vector__vector.html#a106e1b4f5049a08386645afbb658384b>=new double_index_type <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdouble__index__type.html>(_it);00013  }00014
>
>
>  and the conversion of a dvector to double_index_type is defined in
> doublind.cpp as
>
> 00057 00062 <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdouble__index__type.html#a70db7015028be71be42cbc4c37b59319> double_index_type::double_index_type <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdouble__index__type.html#a2265b2e72fbd497b8cd4d4688398957a>(const dvector <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdvector.html>& x)00063   {00064     p <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdouble__index__type.html#ad1bebc88ffff9232f7502f2c764ee3f2> = new dvector_index <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdvector__index.html>((const dvector <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdvector.html>&)(x));00065   }00066
>
>
>  but the constructor for the dvector_index uses the copy constructor for
> dvector
>
>  00184 00189 <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdvector__index.html#aba2c20e6f7432a5b4441e828427ce6e7> dvector_index::dvector_index <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdvector__index.html#aba2c20e6f7432a5b4441e828427ce6e7>(const dvector <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdvector.html>& v) : dvector <http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/classdvector.html>(v)00190 {00191 }00192
>
>
>  which makes a shallow copy of v. Not sure why this doesn't work, but it
> doesn't.
>
>  My immediate issue is that I want to put setInitVals(...) in a code
> library--i.e., not in the tpl code and the usual methods for setting the
> initial values (i.e., simple assignment by element) are private and only
> work when the function is defined inside the tpl.
>
>  I've also tried the set_initial_value(...) method in the tpl code but it
> doesn't work there either. Setting the initial values element-by-element in
> the tpl code does work, so the problem is not on my end (e.g., the dvector
> vls is all 0's).
>
>  Hope this is helpful.
>
>  Buck Stockhausen
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