[ADMB Users] diagnostics to help (especially new) users

[bigA]

Code does not write itself; someone writes it.  Is there any documentation
for developers?  Does admb have a plan to cultivate a development team?  Is
the plan to just keep Dave as chief developer?  Do we have a standard
battery of tests?  It seems daunting enough to learn to use admb; learning
to develop admb seems undocumented.  I guess I am just curious if there is
a plan to develop admb developers?
Cheers!
Aaron

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, John Sibert <sibert at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> This seems like a reasonable idea to me, but I doubt the code will write
> itself.
> John
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> On 02/13/2013 04:39 PM, dave fournier wrote:
>
>> I am working with a guy who has tried to produce a fairly complex model
>> without understanding much about how ADMB works. One of the problems that
>> newbies have is the nature of properly initializing variables.
>> It should be easy to have a
>>
>>    ./xxx   -init
>>
>> to verify that parameters are properly initialized.  It would just have to
>> evaluate the userfunction twice with the same initial parameter values and
>> check the values of the model parameters to see where they differ.
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