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Add tree-like layout for variable selection display/checkboxes #106

Open jsoules opened 1 year ago

jsoules commented 1 year ago

Currently, all reported variables are displayed in one list. So, e.g., if we have tau_0 through tau_12 and rho_0 through rho_20 or whatever, they're just listed sequentially.

Would it be an improvement to allow the user to define (or to implement default rules defining) groups of these variables, so that we get a more hierarchical layout? This would probably also involve displaying one variable per line, and allowing the user to collapse all of the variables with the same category.

These definitions could go in the config file, but it might be more trouble than it's worth if it requires additional config inputs from the user.

I am currently thinking of this mainly as a UI thing, but there might also be room for an option for the user to check the box for the whole group and get a summary of some kind (e.g. averaging over the elements in a variable vector), if this is actually meaningful for some data sets.