If not explicitely specified, tau-Argus uses Total as the code for the overall total in hierarchical definitions when using batch-file as input. Codes for overall totals that are different are currently ignored in sdcTable when preparing the inputs for tau argus, so a definition of a dimensional variable such as
hier_create(root = "totalxy", nodes = c("x", "y", "z"))
will lead to an error when reading the argus-solution (via runArgusBatchFile) back into R.
The solution is to specify the total code for each dimensional variable using syntax <TOTCODE> "code" in metadata file inputs.