This PR adds a command line interface for Tax-Brain. It provides an alternative to the python API or COMP web app. The only required arguments are a start and end year. Here is the output from taxbrain -h:
usage: taxbrain [-h] [--data DATA] [--usecps] [--reform REFORM]
[--behavior BEHAVIOR] [--assump ASSUMP] [--baseline BASELINE]
[--outdir OUTDIR] [--name NAME]
startyear endyear
This is the command line interface for the taxbrain package.
positional arguments:
startyear startyear is the first year of the analysis you want to
run.
endyear endyear is the last year of the analysis you want to
run.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--data DATA The file path to a micro-dataset that is formatted for
use in Tax-Calculator.
--usecps If this argument is present, the CPS file included in
Tax-Calculator will be used for the analysis.
--reform REFORM --reform should be a path to a JSON file.
--behavior BEHAVIOR --behavior should be a path to a JSON file containing
behavioral assumptions.
--assump ASSUMP --assump should be a path to a JSON file containing
user specified economic assumptions.
--baseline BASELINE --baseline should be a path to a JSON file containing a
policy that will be used as the baseline of the
analysis
--outdir OUTDIR outdir is the name of the output directory. Not
including --outdir will result in files being written
to the current directory.
--name NAME Name of the analysis. This will be used to name the
directory where all output files will be written.
This PR adds a command line interface for Tax-Brain. It provides an alternative to the python API or COMP web app. The only required arguments are a start and end year. Here is the output from
taxbrain -h: