configuration file not found - suggestion for improved documentation

[marianklose]

Hi everyone,

thanks for your great work! Not sure if this is the right way how to suggest some future improvement in documentation. After setting up pharmpy and pharmr I tried to run a dummy example:

load_example_model('pheno') %>% fit()

Exception: "FileNotFoundError('No path to NONMEM configured in pharmpy.conf and nmfe not in PATH')"

Based on the docs in https://pharmpy.github.io/latest/configuration.html I tried to locate the config file.

get_config_path()

Cannot find config path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Pharmpy\Pharmpy\pharmpy.conf
warnings.warn(f'Cannot find config path {config_path}')

According to the pharmpy docs ('It is possible to create an empty template configuration file using the create_default_config function.') there should be a function create_default_config which creates the config file in case it doesn't exist yet. In R however this function is named slightly different but I couldn't find a hint to that fact.

create_default_config()

Error in create_default_config() :
could not find function "create_default_config"

With the command create_config_template() it worked and I was able to run the dummy example.

create_config_template()

NULL

get_config_path()

[1] "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Pharmpy\Pharmpy\pharmpy.conf"

I would suggest to either name the function in the pharmr environment also create_default_config() or to add a small hint in https://pharmpy.github.io/latest/configuration.html that the function in R is named create_config_template(). For me that would've helped. Thank you!

[rikardn]

Thanks for the valuable feedback! We will try to make this clearer.