News for the LWFBrook90R-package

Version 0.4.4. (2021-02-24)

• Fixed LTO installation warning on Fedora Linux

Version 0.4.3 (2021-02-09)

• Minor changes to fulfill CRAN publication requirements

Version 0.4.2 (2021-02-08)

Bug fixes:

• run_LWFB90():
  • options_b90$root_method = 'table' gave an error in make_rootden() because of a wrong argument name.
• Fixed bad URLs in documentation

Version 0.4.1 (2021-01-02)

Changes:

• Minor changes to fulfill CRAN publication requirements

Version 0.4.0 (2021-01-15)

Changes:

• arguments and functions were renamed for consistency.
• result datasets are now returned directly by the Fortran model code, without the detour of writing .ASC output text files and reading them back into workspace.
• run time output to the console was disabled, only messages are printed when verbose = T.
  
• run_LWFB90() (before runLWFB90()):
  • without specification of an output selection matrix via output, two tables including all available output variables are returned: general daily outputs and layer outputs. A proper description of model output variables was added to the help pages.
  • all column names of the .ASC output objects (as selected via output) are now in lower case.
  • it is now possible to provide a function as climate-argument, instead of a data.frame.
  • an execution time limit (elapsed time) can be set to prevent simulations from running too long.
• run_multisite_LWFB90() (before msiterunLWFB90()):
  • It is now possible to provide individual param_b90 (before param.b90) input parameter objects for individual climate/soil combinations (i.e. individual locations). The option to provide a list of options_b90 (before options.b90) input objects was disabled.
  • Instead of a list of climate-data.frames for a multisite-simulation, a function can be provided for on-the-fly creation of climate-data.frames. Arguments for the function have to specified via the new climate_args-argument of run_multisite_LWFB90().
  • Names of current climate, soil and param_b90 objects are automatically passed from run_multisite_LWFB90() to run_LWFB90() and thus become available to output_fun.
    
• renamed some of the pedotransfer functions and reorganized the documentation for it. See ?ptfs.
• switched run_multisite_LWFB90() and run_multi_LWFB90() from superseded packages ‘snow’ and ‘doSNOW’ to ‘future’, ‘doFuture’ and ‘progressr’ for parallel computation and progress reporting thereof. Pacifies a check note and is more future-proof (thanks @rnuske).

Version 0.3.4 (2020-08-28)

Changes:

• Adjusted ‘table’-method in MakeRelRootDens(): The root depth distribution provided in a table is now redistributed to the soil nodes under preservation of the total root mass.
• Input changed for ‘soilnodes’-argument of MakeRelRootDens(). See ?MakeRelRootDens.

Bug fixes:

• zero division error causing infinite relawat values in MISCDAY.ASC-output item.
• ‘betamodel’-method of MakeRelRootDens() returned the increment of the cumulative root proportion at the soil nodes, instead of the relative root density, which actually is the former value divided by the layer thickness.

Version 0.3.0 (2020-04-21)

Changes:

• new function msiterunLWFB90()
• runLWFB90(): model input (param.b90, options.b90, standprop_daily) is appended to the return value BEFORE evaluating the output_fun-argument. In this way, on-the-fly post-processing of model results including model-input is possible now.
• minor bugs fixed

Version 0.2.0 (2019-06-18)

Changes:

• output_fun argument replaces gof_fun-argument in runLWFB90() for more flexible output.
• minor bugs fixed

Version 0.1.0 (2019-05-13)

• First beta release: most functionality was taken from brook90r. However, functions and arguments were renamed, and a lot of functionality was added.