An S4 class to represent inter-regional trade

An S4 class to represent inter-regional trade

Slots

name

character. Short name of the trade object, used in sets.

desc

character. Description of the trade object.

commodity

character. The traded commodity short name.

routes

data.frame. Source and destination regions. For bivariate trade define both directions.

trade

data.frame. Technical parameters of trade.

aux

data.frame. Auxiliary commodity of trade.

aeff

data.frame. Auxiliary commodity efficiency parameters.

invcost

data.frame. Investment cost, used when capacityVariable is TRUE.

olife

numeric. Operational life of the trade object.

start

numeric. Start year when the trade-type of process is available for investment.

end

numeric. End year when the trade-type of process is available for investment.

stock

data.frame. Capacity stock of the trade object.

capacityVariable

logical. If TRUE, the capacity variable of the trade object is used. If FALSE, the capacity is defined by availability parameters (ava.*) in the trade-flow units.

cap2act

numeric. Capacity to activity ratio.

misc

list. Additional information.

fixom

data.frame. (not implemented!) Fixed operation and maintenance costs.

varom

data.frame. (not implemented!) Variable operation and maintenance costs.

capacity

data.frame. (not implemented!) Capacity parameters of the trade object.