Version 2.0.0

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

Version 1.2.1

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

Version 1.2.0

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

Version 1.1.0

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 Gihtub: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

Finalise publication in Methods in Ecology & Evolution

Version of paper used in publication at

Falster, FitzJohn, Brännström, Dieckmann, 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

First submission to Methods in Ecology & Evolution

Draft paper submitted to Methods in Ecology & Evolution.

First stable release of the main package architecture

Last modules version

This (94a9887) is the reference last version using Rcpp modules. There will be some tests that point at this version for a while, so it's going to be useful to have a tag to point at.