NEWS

apsimx 2.7.X

sens_apsimx can now accept an argument called 'soil.profiles'. This opens the door for conducting simulations on a spatial grid, by carefully passing weather and soils profiles. Since now package 'future' is used for parallelization, this makes it easy to run it on a parallel environment.
sens_apsimx cores argument now requires package 'future'. This was done to support both unix and windows.
edit_apsimx Editing different simulations used to require specifying 'root'. Now if the parameter path is complete, this is not required. In this case node should equal "Other"
check_apsim_met checks presence and values of tav and amp. New tav_apsim_met function can be used to calculate and insert tav in an APSIM met file
inspect_apsimx is a bit more robust. When node = "Other" the simulation structure will be displayed according to the value of parm (0, 1, 2). If 'parm' is a parameter path, the root elements will be 'guessed' from the string.

apsimx 2.6.2 - 2024-01-28

Most change are to adjust to new structure in the APSIM simulations
soil profiles now can contain an object of class 'initialwater_parms' that can be used to set the initial water. This caused problems in the past because of changing 'physical' without changing the initial water
unexported function get_worldmodeler_soil_profile

Fixed bug in napad_apsim_met and also wrote more extensive tests (test_apsim_met)
Added method confint for optim_apsim class and fixed bug related to this issue
Added package 'ucminf' as an additional optimization type
optim functions data argument data frame can contain missing data
function get_daymet_apsim_met (which used to depend on the FedData package) is deprecated. It has been replaced by the previous get_daymet2_apsim_met function.
remove use of raster package

By deault it runs for newer versions of APSIM Next Gen (Sep 2021 or newer) (Classic is unchanged)
For Mac and Linux, you might need to set 'mono = TRUE' for compatibility with older versions of APSIM Next Gen
New functions: plot.met and summary.met for 'met' objects
New function: carbon_stocks for calculating carbon stocks for an object of class 'soil_profile'
New functions: comparing soil profiles 'compare_apsim_soil_profile' and associated plot function
More options in 'unit_conv' function.
Edits to writing scripts vignette
Various bug fixes and improvements.

Sensitivity analysis functions for APSIM Next Gen and Classic
Parameter Estimation functions for APSIM Next Gen and Classic
Work in progress function inspect_apsimx_json for .json or .apsimx files
Helper function (grep_json_list - not needed for most users)
Unreleased edit_apsimx_json function.
Various bug fixes in edit and inspect functions
Creating synthetic soil profiles from ISRIC (get_isric_soil_profile)
Depracated get_daymet_apsim_met (replaced with get_daymet2_apsim_met)
Creating synthetic soil profile from SSURGO (get_ssurgo_soil_profile and get_ssurgo_tables)
Passing extra arguments to APSIM call through xargs_apsimx

Much improved handling of APSIM-X output. However, this led to some default changes. Argument 'value' in function 'apsimx' and 'read_apsimx' is 'report' instead of 'all'. The default for 'apsim' was also changed for consitency. Hopefully, this will not impact too many scripts.
Multi-site optimization is now possible (for Classic and Next Gen). In this case, the index argument likely needs to be adjusted to 'index = c("outfile", "Date") for 'Classic' and 'index = c("report", "Date")' for 'Next Generation'
Several improvements to 'get' functions for fetching weather data.
Fixed bug when using 'root' argument in 'edit_apsim'