PredictiveEcology/SpaDES: v1.3.0

Known issues: https://github.com/PredictiveEcology/SpaDES/issues

• stricter package version dependencies in Imports and Suggests
• debug argument in spades() can now take any expression, character strings. TRUE/FALSE changed behavior to show only current event.
• timeunits: when there are parent and grandparent modules, if timeunit is defined, it overrides the "smallest unit" rule. Thus, a parent module can force a timeunit.

• Plot - enhancements and fixes:

  • more robust base plotting and many visual tests on Windows;
  • re-add col arg to Plot (mimicks cols). Was lost from version 1.1.2;
  • allow any arbitrary function to be used internally to Plot (e.g., barplot, plot, etc.);
  • add arr argument to Plot(), allowing passing of arrangement;
  • allow title arg in Plot() to accept character for plot title;
  • Plot can use character passed to title as a title;
  • some additional functionality for plotting of factor rasters, incl. clickValues, legends correct for wide variety of types;
  • change new arg in Plot(). Now it does one plot at a time, not whole device. Use clearPlot() to wipe whole device.
• Add modulesGraph, showing parent and child module relationships.
• Add filesOnly arg to shine(). This can be in preparation for publishing to www.shinyapps.io or other pages. Currently still alpha.
• Add POM: Pattern Oriented Modeling (#269). A simple interface to a simList object, allowing fitting parameters to data.
• add .inputObjects functionality -- function that runs during simInit() to create default inputObjects
• add P as a namespaced shortcut for params: P(sim) would replace params(sim)$moduleName when called from within that module
• allow params(sim) & start(sim) & others in defineModule() by changing parse order in module metadata
• add explicit cl arg to parallel aware functions, for more control
• newModule gains new arguments type = c("child", "parent") and children = c(). See ?newModule (#300).
• module structure now includes an R subfolder for R scripts. These will be parsed during simInit.
• checksums updated to use faster hashing algorithm (xxhash64) and now only requires a single hash value per file (#295)
• new Rstudio addin for 'newModule' (#298); requires Import of shiny (>= 0.13), miniUI (>= 0.1.1), and rstudioapi (>= 0.5)
• fixed bugs in module template
• fixed bug in cir (#288, #311)
• improved use of package options; added new option spades.modulesPath.
• improved downloadModule to use option spades.modulesPath (#309)
• improved specification of module inputs and outputs (#189, #214, PR#310)
• remove module version warning (#312)
• other tweaks and fixes