A rich toolkit of using the whole building simulation program 'EnergyPlus'(https://energyplus.net), which enables programmatic navigation, modification of 'EnergyPlus' models and makes it less painful to do parametric simulations and analysis.
eplusr provides a rich toolkit of using EnergyPlus directly in R, which enables programmatic navigation, modification of EnergyPlus models and makes it less painful to do parametric simulations and analysis.
Download and install EnergyPlus in R
Read, parse and modify EnergyPlus:
Input Data File (IDF)
Weather File (EPW)
Report Data Dictionary (RDD) & Meter Data Dictionary (MDD)
Error File (ERR)
Modify multiple versions of IDFs and run corresponding EnergyPlus both in the background and in the front
Rich-featured interfaces to query and modify IDFs
Automatically handle referenced fields and validate input during modification
Take fully advantage of most common used data structure for data science in R – data.frame
Extract model, weather data into data.frames
Modify multiple objects via data.frames input
Query output via SQL in Tidy format which is much better for data analysis and visualization
Provide a simple yet extensible prototype of conducting parametric simulations and collect all results in one go
A pure R-based version updater transition() which is much faster than
VersionUpdater distributed with EnergyPlus
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