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Plant 2.0.0 release notes

v2.0.0 was released on 25/02/2021

Major changes

  • Improved templating of strategies and environments to allow for inheritance and re-use. See: FF16r_strategy for example of method overloading and K93_environment for environment inheritance.
  • Added two new models: Kohyama 1993 (K93) and a soil water strategy
  • Recovered the FF16r strategy
  • Decoupled patch, environments and strategies by moving several routines to strategies, e.g. assimilation
  • Hyperparameterisation now handled in R only.
  • Added a strategy implementation vignette

Minor changes

  • Moved strategy defaults to header
  • Moved strategy and environment specific files to inst/include/plant/models
  • Renamed several functions, including:
    • germination -> establishment
    • Plant -> Individual
    • area_leaf -> competition_effect
    • area_leaf_above -> compute_competition
    • vars_phys -> rates
    • scm_vars -> compute rates
  • Updated vignettes, documentation and tests
  • Switch Ubuntu versions in Travis pipeline
  • Added r_init_interpolators methods for environment initialisation
  • A few fixes to scaffolder and tests
  • Increased lenience on integration test
  • Fixed compiler warnings
  • Removed PlantPlus

A full account of changes from the previous version is available on GitHub: v1.2.1...v2.0.0

Plant 1.2.1 Release Notes

v1.2.1 was released on 20/09/2019

Major Changes

Minor Changes

  • update Makefile to use pkgbuild instead of devtools for building dll ( because of upstream changes )
  • switching to using remotes instead of devtools for installing from github ( because of upstream changes )

A full account of changes from the previous version is available on Github: v1.2.0...v1.2.1

Plant 1.2.0 Release Notes

v1.2.0 was released on 20/03/2018

Major Changes

  • New strategy scaffolder ensures higher level operations work across all strategies and for new strategies. This includes lcp_whole_plant XXX_PlantPlus, grow_plant_to_size, grow_plant_to_height, grow_plant_to_time
  • website now builds via pkgdown package (used to use staticdocs but this is deprecated)
  • simplified workflow for building website
  • converted supporting materials from tex to Rmd

Minor Changes

  • start documenting notes for developers in inst/docs/developer_notes.Rmd
  • add CITATION file
  • Address many issues in documentation and package setup causing rcmdcheck to fail

A full account of changes from the previous version is available on Github: v1.1.0...v1.2.0

Plant 1.1.0 Release Notes

v1.1.0 was released on 2/02/2018

Major Changes

  • Now compiles and runs on Windows machines (requires R 3.3.0 or newer)
  • Further details on installation
  • Enable assembly_parameters to accept more named arguments

Minor Changes

  • Add Appveyor for build tests on Windows machines
  • Update tests to use latest version of testthat
  • Remove package traitecoevo/callr, previously used to make system calls
  • Makefile: Add roxygen and RcppR6 to compile target
  • roxygen & Rcpp updates
  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

A full account of changes from the previous version is available on Github: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

Plant 1.0.0 Release Notes

v1.0.0 was released on 23/02/2016

This version corresponds to the paper describing the package:

Falster, DS, RG FitzJohn, Å Brännström, U Dieckmann, M Westoby (2016) plant: A package for modelling forest trait ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7: 136-146, doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12525

A full account of changes from the previous version is available on Github: v0.2.2...v1.0.0

Plant 0.2.2 Release Notes

v0.2.2 was released on 1/06/2015

Draft paper about package submitted to Methods in Ecology & Evolution.

Major changes

First stable release of advanced implementation of plant