RNetLogo News

Changes in version 1.0-4

BUG FIXES

• Errors in NLGetAgentSet, NLGetGraph, NLGetPatches, NLSetAgentSet, NLSetPatches, NLSetPatchSet sind language update in NetLogo 6.0 fixed

Changes in version 1.0-3

NEW FEATURES

• Update to NetLogo 6.0

• Adding optional parameter in NLStart to specify name of netlogo.jar file as the name contains the version number in the name since NetLogo 6.0.0.

Changes in version 1.0-2

NEW FEATURES

• Update to NetLogo 5.3

• Changes in internal architecture of holding S4 class object for conformity to CRAN policy

• Supporting older Java version again (addressing "Unsupported major.minor version" error, however, using Java version before 8.0 is deprecated)

Changes in version 1.0-1

NEW FEATURES

• Removing support for NetLogo 4.x (no nl.version argument in NLStart anymore)

• Removing performanceNotes vignette

BUG FIXES

• Fixing CRAN policy violation.

• Update of manual pages and code examples.

Changes in version 1.0-0

NEW FEATURES

• Official release in together with the publication in Journal of Statistical Software

BUG FIXES

• Update of manual pages and code examples.

Changes in version 0.9-7

NEW FEATURES

• Massive performance improvements in NLSetAgentSet, NLSetPatches, NLSetPatchSet

• Change in NLSetPatchSet: identifies columns in the input data.frame by name. Expects pxcor, pycor (and, in case of 3D, pzcor) columns.

Changes in version 0.9-6

BUG FIXES

• NLStart(<nl.path>, ...) failed with: Error in .jnew("nlcon/Preprocess") : java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: nlcon/Preprocess : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0. This happend when using Java versions before 7. The .jar files are now compiled with support up to Java 5.

• several bug fixes and changes in manual pages, code examples and tutorial

NEW FEATURES

• Change.log moved to NEWS.Rd. Therefore, news() function is supported now.

• Argument obj.name in NLStart is replaced by nl.obj. In all other functions nl.obj is now also a string instead of an reference to NetLogo. References are handled internally, now, and no global variables are created anymore.

• More clear working directory handling strategy: stores the working directory active before creating the first NetLogo instance. Reset to this wd after closing the last active NetLogo instance.

• New all argument in NLQuit to close/quit all open NetLogo instances.

Changes in version 0.9-5

BUG FIXES

• Just a fix to fulfill CRAN policy: limit max. parallel processes in vignette parallelProcessing.Rnw to 2 core.

Changes in version 0.9-4

BUG FIXES

• Update of manual pages.

• Spelling corrections in parallelProcessing guide.

• Small corrections due to package building warnings.

NEW FUNCTIONS

• NLSetPatchSet added, especially usefull for NetLogo 3D as an equivalent to NLSetPatches, which works only with NetLogo 2D.

NEW FEATURES

• New argument max.minutes added to NLDoCommandWhile and NLDoReportWhile. It stops the execution after a defined number of minutes (default: 10), if it is > 0.

• parallelProcessing.pdf and performanceNotes.pdf moved to vignettes.

Changes in version 0.9-3

NEW FUNCTIONS

• Experimental function NLSetAgentSet added (may change or be deleted in future).

NEW FEATURES

• NetLogo 5.0 is default in NLStart (nl.version=5) –> NetLogo 5.0 is much more faster than NetLogo 4.1.x in sending values to R!

• Support of NetLogo 4.0.x added (use nl.version=40 in NLStart).

• Rewrite of functions NLGetAgentSet, NLGetPatches, NLGetGraph for markable speed improvements.

• Default return type of NLGetAgentSet and NLGetPatches is a data.frame instead of a list.

• Document "performanceNotes.pdf" added.

• Document "parallelProcessing.pdf" added.

Changes in version 0.9-2

BUG FIXES

• Typo in manual fixed (order of arguments in NLDoCommand).

NEW FEATURES

• Support for NetLogo 3D added (extra boolean argument is3d in NLStart).

• Better clean up at NLQuit (but this is still a problem. NetLogo offers no clean up for all threads, they just do a System.exit, which can not be used with rJava, because it will terminate the JVM, therefore also rJava and finally R as well.)

Changes in version 0.9-1

BUG FIXES

• JARs compiled against Java 1.5 now instead of Java 1.6.