plant - 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

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - C++
Published by aornugent about 4 years ago

plant - 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

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - C++
Published by dfalster over 5 years ago

plant - 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

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - C++
Published by dfalster over 5 years ago

plant - 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

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - C++
Published by dfalster about 7 years ago

plant - 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

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - C++
Published by dfalster about 7 years ago

plant - First submission to Methods in Ecology & Evolution

Draft paper submitted to Methods in Ecology & Evolution.

First stable release of the main package architecture

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - C++
Published by richfitz almost 10 years ago

plant - Last modules version

This (94a98871bb542646e77aaa9913a538ed4258d629) 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.

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - C++
Published by richfitz over 10 years ago