Changes in version 1.9.1.9000                      

  - Breaking: loadPath.SitePFT(path) now takes only one argument,
    removing the previously required but ignored settings
    (@Thomas-Sedhom, #3834).
  - check.model.settings() now skips lookup of the model binary path if
    no DB connection is provided (#3863).
  - When no DB connection is provided to check.database.settings, it now
    skips with an INFO instead of a WARN. Rationale: now that the
    database is optional, a settings with no DB block is a valid
    settings.

                        Changes in version 1.9.1                        

Fixed

  - listToXml.MultiSettings now produces valid XML from a MultiSettings
    with length 1 (#3546) .
  - setEnsemblePaths no longer wraps single paths in a list, giving
    <path>/your/file.here</path> instead of the previous
    <path><path1>/your/file.here</path1></path> (#3561).

Changed

  - The tag argument to listToXml() is now optional and will default to
    "pecan" if not specified. This sets the name of the root tag of the
    resulting XML object (#3558).
  - The first argument of listToXml.MultiSettings() has been renamed
    from item to x, and it now accepts but ignores ..., both for
    consistency with the generic (#3558).
  - setEnsemblePaths() no longer restricts the set of values accepted
    for input_type (#3633)

                        Changes in version 1.9.0                        

Changed

  - PEcAn.settings is now distributed under the BSD 3-clause license
    instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
  - createMultiSiteSettings now names each site's block of settings$run
    as site.[siteid] for easier subsetting (was settings.[n]).
  - write.settings will now return the formatted XML as a string (and
    not write to any file) when called with outputfile = NULL, for
    consistency with XML::saveXML and for convenience when debugging.

Added

  - createMultiSiteSettings argument siteIds now accepts data frames as
    well as the previously accepted numeric or character vectors. The
    data frame should have one site per row, uniquely identified by a
    mandatory id column. All columns of each row will become fields of
    the resulting settings$run$site block.
  - New function setEnsemblePaths inserts paths to your ensemble inputs
    (met, poolinitcond, etc) into every site's inputs block according to
    the filename pattern specified in a template string.

Fixed

  - Reading a multi-settings from XML now keeps the site bock names
    specified in the file instead of defaulting to settings.[n].

Removed

  - Internal helper function getRunSettings is no longer exported. As
    the documentation has long noted, it was not intended to be called
    directly.

                        Changes in version 1.8.0                        

  - Bug fixes for ensemble runs.

                        Changes in version 1.7.1                        

  - All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for
    all of the PEcAn packages; please see
    https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for
    details.