Change subset_index file saved by MacroecoDesktop to split_index
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I can fix this as I'm digging in the code.
The original subset_index is actually better. Note, for example, when an empirical SAR is calculated in 4 quadrants, the index gives the ranges of x and y coordinates for each quadrant. This is an index of the various subsets of the data, not of the split (which would be something like x:2;y:2).
The reason I thought to change this is that subset is being used in two ways - you can give the subset keyword in a parameter file to use only a single year of the data, for example, and then you can give a split keyword which will run multiple analyses on subsets of the data. While this might be a little confusion, calling the ranges of values indexed in this file a splits would be worse, I think. Syntactically, they are subsets, even if the subsets arise from calling a split parameter.