upcoming changes in the development version of SpaDES

[Alex Chubaty]

Just a head's up that there are some upcoming changes that may affect your existing code:

1. The `newModule` function has been modified and given new arguments. In making this change, only the 'name' and 'path' arguments were retained as required arguments: all other args must now be supplied to the '...' argument and be named.  For example, newModule("moduleName", "/path/to/modulesDir", TRUE) no longer works. Use newModule("moduleName", "/path/to/modulesDir", open = TRUE) instead.

2. Checksums for modules' associated data files will be calculated using a different hashing algorithm. This means that the calculated checksums in a module's CHECKSUMS.txt file will need to be recalculated. See https://github.com/PredictiveEcology/SpaDES/issues/295 for more info and how to update your modules once this is implemented.

Please let me know if you require any help adjusting your code. Note that we plan to include these changes in the forthcoming v1.3.0 release in the next week or so.

Thanks,

Alex