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Add a lightweight getting-started vignette #2

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@danmcgraw94

Users currently have to jump from the JMD example walkthrough in the README to setting up their own project with no guided transition. A getting-started vignette would bridge this gap.

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Lightweight R Markdown vignette using eval = FALSE on any heavy computation (rfa_simulate(), etc.) so it stays fast and builds cleanly under R CMD check.

Suggested structure:

  1. Prerequisites (inputs needed: hydrographs, reservoir table, parameters)
  2. Suggested project layout (e.g., data/hydrographs/, scripts/, rfaR_results/)
  3. Reading your inputs — CSV gotchas
    • Numeric columns (commas, type coercion)
    • Empirical stage CSV format (column A is Ordinate, water year has to be constructed manually)
  4. Running a simulation conceptually (non-executing code block)
  5. Plotting results

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Raised by Allen (comments #3, #4, #6, #7).

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