Automate Input process to connect directly with ADF&G databases

[curryc2]

The current version of the model takes model input data as a series of 8 input .csv files (4 main data files in the /R directory and 4 used in brood table calculation/creation /Reallocation directory), which are updated manually each year.

To reduce effort and improve efficiency, and reduce the probability of transcription errors, it would be ideal to have the model code read data directly from ADFG databases.

As discussed with Greg Buck (ADFG), I single input R object could be produced by ADFG annually and used as the single input to the run reconstruction model. This would require updating current functions that read in data and create ADMB input (.dat) files to read the proposed .RData file and some reformatting/dimension checking of the data upon import.

[hhamazaki]

Due to data coming from multiple sources that are not integrated even within ADFG, this is not easy. However, we should be able to reduce and standardize the number of input data files, as well as their location.