--replace flag, check if bidsmreye output has been produced already and skip processing of files that already have data [ENH]

[Michael-Sun]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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New feature

Running bidsmreye on a cluster compute gpu node can run into issues if the process gets killed because of memory errors, timeout, or other miscellaneous issues (e.g., administration-level malicious code detection wrongly kills your process). It would be good if bidsmreye can pick up where it left off instead of starting processing all over again.

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[Remi-Gau]

yeah I was thinking of possibly using a proper workflow manager for this.
nipype / pydra or bidsnake?

this may not happen fast but it would be useful to have

[Remi-Gau]

for now I may make the default behavior to reuse pre-existing files and pass a --force flag to overwrite previous results

[Remi-Gau]

Not sure if you are using it. But splitting the processing by running one action at a time may help a bit as well.

https://bidsmreye.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage_notes.html#named-arguments

[Remi-Gau]

for now I may make the default behavior to reuse pre-existing files and pass a --force flag to overwrite previous results

files that already have an output should now be skipped unless the --force argument is passed in the CLI