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PEST interface for parameter estimation
Good evening,
I have tried running the PEST interface, but arrive with the below error messages (...no such file or directory). I checked that I have full user rights to the "My simile files" folder. Any ideas of how to get around the problem? I am using Simile 4.9 and Windows 2003. No idea of which PEST version, but i downloaded it in January 2009.
many thanks
irina
Could not open C:/Documents and Settings/rjalonen/My Documents/My Simile files/sim269/model.rec r or r/w -- couldn't open "C:/Documents and Settings/rjalonen/My Documents/My Simile files/sim269/model.rec": no such file or directory
Could not open C:/Documents and Settings/rjalonen/My Documents/My Simile files/sim269/model.rec r or r/w -- couldn't open "C:/Documents and Settings/rjalonen/My Documents/My Simile files/sim269/model.rec": no such file or directory
while executing
"error "Could not open $name $way or r/w -- $err""
(procedure "NetOpen" line 5)
invoked from within
"NetOpen $recFile r"
(procedure "GrabMsgs" line 24)
invoked from within
"GrabMsgs .mre1.mainframe.frame.mainpw.mainDisplayPane.notebook.fpage2.panedwindow.pane0.container file27ffce0"
(in namespace inscope "::pest20050803" script line 1)
invoked from within
"::namespace inscope ::pest20050803 {GrabMsgs .mre1.mainframe.frame.mainpw.mainDisplayPane.notebook.fpage2.panedwindow.pane0.container file27ffce0}"
This message appears under
This message appears under Windows if PEST cannot be run from the command line. After you have installed the files, you need to add the location of the executables to the PATH environment variable. The PEST documentation will give details.
I'm finding the PEST
I'm finding the PEST interface really useful - but I wanted to see the correlation and covariance matrices. They're easy to get with a small change to the TCL file. With WinXP, go to Program Files/Simile5.7/IOTools/Standard tools, open pestlink.tcl with an editor, find ICOV and on that line change "0 0 0" to "1 1 0" and save. Then when you run PEST within Simile, you can save the .mtt file and examine correlation and covariance matrices.
Jerry Vanclay, SCU, Lismore