This function runs a stepwise covariate NLME job in parallel It is designated to be called in commandline (Rscript)
performStepwiseCovarSearch(args, reportProgress = FALSE)
Directory path where NLME job was executed
a vector of arguments provided as the following: c(method, install_directory, shared_directory, localWorkingDir, modelFile, nlmeArgsFile, listOfFilesToCopy, numCovariates, CovariateNames, NCriteria, addPValue, removePValue, NumProc, workflowName)
whether it is required to report the progress (for local jobs usually)