# The antaresProcessing package

#### 2021-11-05

The antaresProcessing package provides functions that uses data created with package antaresRead to compute standard aggregate like customer surplus or sector surplus. This document demonstrates how to use the main functions of the package.

## Installation

The antaresProcessing package can be installed from zip file. Its installation requires that the antaresRead package has already been installed. If it is not already the case, you can use the following commands.

install.packages(c("data.table", "plyr", "lubridate"))
install.packages("path/to/package/antaresRead_***.zip")

In all cases, run:

install.packages("path/to/package/antaresProcessing_***.zip")

## Basic usage

The usage of the package is quite straightforward. First one has to read data from an antares study with readAntares and then pass it to a function of antaresProcessing. Each function requires different type of data (areas, links…) and different level of detail. Generally, functions that perform non-linear calculations require hourly data for each Monte-Carlo scenario but they have arguments to then aggregate the results at the desired level of detail. On the contrary, functions that do linear calculations accept every level of detail and their output has the same level of detail as their input.

The following table sums up the required data and the output of the different functions. For more details, one can look at the help file of each function. Especially, each help page contains an example that minimizes the amount of data read.

Function Description requires time step works on synthesis
surplus Consumer and producer surplus areas, links hourly no
surplusClusters Surplus of clusters clusters, areas hourly no
surplusSectors Surplus of sectors of production areas, clusters hourly no
margins Downward and upward margins of an area areas, clusters all yes
modulation modulation of cluster units or sectors areas or districts or clusters all yes

There is also a compare function that can be used to compare two tables with same shape. It is useful to compare the results of two simulations.

studyPath <- "path/to/study"

setSimulationPath(studyPath, 1)
surplus1 <- surplus(data1,  timeStep = "annual", synthesis = TRUE)

setSimulationPath(studyPath, 2)
surplus2 <- surplus(data2,  timeStep = "annual", synthesis = TRUE)

compare(surplus1, surplus2)

## 'antaresDataTable' object with dimension 72 x 8
## Type: surplusComparison
## TimeStep: annual
## Synthesis: TRUE
##                area timeId time consumerSurplus producerSurplus storageSurplus ...
## 1:            01_pt Annual 2017       -57046.01       10371.915              0
## 2:            02_es Annual 2017      -956371.65      517675.155              0
## 3:            03_es Annual 2017      2435946.66    -1978004.005              0
## 4:            04_fr Annual 2017       -70700.07      110701.300              0
## ...

By default, compare computes the difference between two tables, but it can also compute a ratio or a variation rate.