NEWS.md

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MGDrivE 1.1.0

Major Changes

• data.table moved to Imports, from Depends.
• Parameter names made consistent in several auxiliary functions:
• retrieveOutput()
• calcQuantiles()
• plotMGDrivESingle()

Minor Changes

• Several spelling errors addressed.
• Realistic landscape example changed to use the zero-inflated kernel, instead of the basic exponential kernel.
• Several plotting tweaks.
• Added links to the accompanying data analysis package, MoNeT-MGDrivE, part of the MoNeT package.

MGDrivE 1.5.0

Major Changes

• Complete internal rebuild of MGDrivE implementation.
• The underlying mathematics are the same, only the implementation has been changed.
• Significant memory reductions.
• Significant computational reduction.
• All internal objects and functions have been updated.
• Most important, the stochastic implementation had a bug in it, which has been resolved.
• All releases are now numeric vectors/matrices indicating the genotype and release number; this is handled internally.
• It is now possible to release mated females.
• Male-mating ability is now female-genotype dependent, allowing for assortative mating.
• parameterizeMGDrivE() takes several new parameters
  • sampTime indicates how often output is written from the simulation
  • inheritanceCube is now required to parameterize the initial genotype distributions
  • LarPopRatio, AdPopRatio_F, and AdPopRatio_M have been updated internally to reflect accurate default behavior and handle different user input to set them.
• data.table has been removed from the dependencies. This implies rebuilds of:
• splitOutput()
• aggregateFemales()
• calcQuantiles()
• splitOutput() and aggregateFemales() have been fixed to properly use the writeDir parameter.

Minor Changes

• All verbose options have been updated for consistency. The default is TRUE.
• All parameters that previously had to be vectors the same length as the number of patches have been updated to take a single number, implying that all parameters are the same for each patch, or as a vector, so each patch can be specified individually.
• Plotting functions have been updated to handle any sampling scheme (i.e., if output is not written every day).
• parameterizeMGDrivE() had internal loops replaced with vectorized functions.
• Spelling errors and documentation inconsistencies were addressed.
• Citation was updated to reflect publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

MGDrivE 1.6.0

Major Changes

• Rebuild of the Migration Function
• Migration is handled at the Network level now. This removes objects from the Patch class, making the package lighter and more efficient.
• Migration is no longer Dirichlet distributed.
• New Inheritance Patterns
• One and Two locus Cleave and Rescue (ClvR) constructs have been made available.
• ERACR/eCHACR constructs have been made available.

Minor Changes

• Spelling checked and errors corrected.
• Function links in the documentation have been updated.

MGDrivE documentation built on Oct. 23, 2020, 7:28 p.m.