How to set up an sl4am project

Once the basic SuperLab experiments are running, the next step is to set up the hierarchy of files and folders. This can be done with a fairly simple script, given the names of the population and condition groups and the initial number of subjects in each cell. Options include setting up an empty Shared folder and links to it in each experiment folder. Empty rc files and flag.free files are created everywhere. Another option is to clone a new population group from an existing one; another is to look for empty rc files (this would be the sign that an external setup script didn't do its job completely).

However, once the hierarchy is all set up -- and it probably is a good idea to set up only the Try population group first, and clone the other groups from it -- the next step is to populate all of the experiment folders and to put actual code into the rc files. The best way to do this is to write a custom script. This script could use find(1) and be driven by the existing factors as an organizational approach.

Update:

Just stumbled across the automator(1) command. This should be very useful for running experiments, since it is a way to invoke Automator workflows from the command line. There are options to set variables and to pass input, including standard input, to the workflow. It is less clear to to take output from the workflow, probably temporary files will be needed.