⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪ Git & the GitHub repository Beginner

  • Fork and update MAgPIE from/with upstream repository.
  • Understand the basic workflow including pull requests and branches.
  • Have heard some very basic git commands and know where to find more help.

⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪ GAMS code, modules & realizations Beginner

  • Navigate through the GAMS code of MAgPIE
  • Understand the structure of modules and realizations
  • Understand naming rules and conventions

⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪ Model documentation (goxygen) Beginner

  • Explaination of in-code documentation
  • goxygen installation guide (for documentation compilation)
  • Properly reading MAgPIE documentation
  • Updating model documentation

⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪ Managing renv Advanced

  • Understand what renv is, how it works and why and how MAgPIE uses it.
  • Update and restore renvs via piamenv functions.
  • Get an overview of renv functions to get more control.

⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪ Starting a MAgPIE run Beginner

  • starting MAgPIE with default settings
  • understanding the stages of model execution
  • initial troubleshooting steps in case of an error
  • cancelling a MAgPIE run

⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪ Update model settings Beginner

  • Understand MAgPIE configuration
  • Update settings
  • Run the model with updated configuration.

⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪ Creating a start script Advanced

  • Understand MAgPIE starting scripts
  • Create custom starting scripts

⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪ Regional output analysis Advanced

  • Use model-internal R-scripts for output analysis.
  • Know where to find the automated validation PDF and how it is structured.
  • Use the evaluation tool appResultsLocal of the library shinyresults.
  • Use the magpie4 package for output analysis.
  • Analyse outputs with the gdx package.

⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪ Spatial output analysis Advanced

  • Know where to find spatially explicit output data (NetCDF & magclass-format)
  • Data visualisation with the Panoply NetCDF Data Viewer
  • Learn how to make animated time series with output data
  • Use the luplot package for spatial visualisation of magclass objects in R

⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪ Creating a new realization Advanced

  • Changing the MAgPIE GAMS code
  • adding In-Code documentation
  • adding a new module realization
  • integrate new realization

⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪ Git pull requests - feeding back Advanced

  • MAgPIE policy for updates of the main repository
  • Procedure to create a MAgPIE pull request

⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪ Input data repositories & Patches Advanced

  • Create a local input data repository.
  • Package a patch file.
  • Include a patch in the model configuration

⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪ Input data preparation (MADRaT) Advanced

  • Introduction to the MADRaT framework
  • magclass object functionality
  • MADRaT-based input data preprocessing
  • Portable Unaggregated Collections (PUCs) in MADRaT