Add ability to auto-save Ecospace summaries

[colettew]

One question I had to facilitate things in terms of extracting results:is there a way we could export to csv the whole Ecospace results? i.e., all time steps for all groups so instead of me typing in the timestep differences I want then copy pasting the results and doing this 3 times over per run (as I want 5 years, 10 years and 25 years past the 29 year time step) - I could run some R code to extract ot from the csv?? that would save a lot of time

[jeroens]

The Ecospace summary logic computes stats over a beginning and end period, and there is currently no infrastructure to

Save this data to CSV (let alone auto-save this data)
Auto-save this for different points across the run

Both suggestions sound very useful. The summary logic and user interface will need changing to calculate a start, end, and one or more mid-run summaries. Adding this to the Auto-save functionality will be straight forward