This method should be the final call in a pipeline started with create_xml and one or more calls to add_xml_data. Please see the wiki for more details https://github.com/JGCRI/gcamdata/wiki/XML-Conversion

run_xml_conversion(dot)

Arguments

dot

The current state of the pipeline started from create_xml

Value

The argument passed in unmodified in case a user wanted run the conversion again at a later time.

Details

Note that this method relies on Java to run the conversion. To avoid errors for users who do not have Java installed it will check the global option gcamdata.use_java before attempting to run the conversion. If the flag is set to FALSE a warning will be issued and the conversion skipped. To enable the use of Java a user can set options(gcamdata.use_java=TRUE)

Author

PP March 2017