Release Notes

New features and changes

submit_model() now has an .overwrite argument (similar to how new_model() and copy_model_from() have one). Previously, the user had to pass this through as .bbi_args = list(overwrite = TRUE) in order to overwrite output from a previous model execution. (#547)
Functions run_log(), summary_log(), and config_log() all previously defaulted to searching for models recursively in sub-directories. This has been changed so that now users will need to pass .recurse = TRUE to search recursively. The primary reason for the change is user feedback indicating that, more often than not, sub-directories under a model directory contain something like a bootstrap, which would consist of a large number of models that shouldn't be included in the log table. Additionally, these sub-directories sometimes contain enough models (5000+) to make the *_log() call take quite some time to complete. (#492)

Previously, nm_file() (and, as a result, functions like nm_join() and nm_tables() that use nm_file()) was upper-casing all columns in the table that was loaded. This was not part of the original specification and ended up causing problems with some users' downstream code, which expected the column names to remain intact. Going forward nm_file() does not modify any column names. (#564)
Previously, a user could pass a directory path to use_bbi() and have the executable installed inside that directory. That behavior was undocumented and, more importantly, led to problems when the same directory path was set as options("bbr.bbi_exe_path"), because that option needs to contain a path to the actual executable. This was fixed so that now use_bbi() explicitly accepts only a path to the desired location of the executable, erroring if it receives a path to an existing directory instead. (#552)
bbi 1.4.0 (specifically #514) made the change that users no longer have to specify parallel = TRUE to have submit_model() respect the number passed to threads. Unfortunately, it also introduced a bug where passing parallel = FALSE without passing threads causes an error. This has been corrected so that passing parallel = FALSE without passing threads will disable parallelization for that run. (#554)