setExperiment {Chicago} | R Documentation

## Set Experiment

### Description

Creates a template CHiCAGO experiment object. This should be the first function called.

### Usage

    setExperiment(designDir = "", settings = list(),
          settingsFile = NULL, def.settings=defaultSettings())

### Arguments

`designDir` | The location of the design directory, e.g "~/resources/path". (Should not end with a slash.)
`settings` | A named list containing settings to apply. Setting `names(settings)[1]` is set to (settings)[[1]], and so on. This overrides anything specified in `settingsFile`, or in `def.settings`.
`settingsFile` | The location of a file containing settings. Each row should contain the name of a setting, followed by whitespace, followed by the value of that setting. Overrides anything specified in `def.settings`.
`def.settings` | These are the default settings.

### Details

For a list of settings, see `defaultSettings`.

### Value

An object of class `chicagoData`.

### Author(s)

Mikhail Spivakov, Jonathan Cairns, Paula Freire Pritchett

### See Also

`defaultSettings`

### Examples

      designDir <- file.path(system.file("extdata", package="Chicago"), "unitTestDesign")

      cd <- setExperiment(designDir)

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