setMisc and getMisc functions do not exist in the latest version (1.6.0)

[metwallys]

I was working on week 5 of the course and found out that these two functions used to store additional information no longer exist in the latest version without an alternative. I am not able to reproduce the animal breeding program scripts, maybe unless I explicitly install and use the older version of AlphaSimR.

I wanted to know If this is going to be the case from now on to look for alternative methods to store similar information in the future. Thank you in advance!

UPDATE:
It took me a while to read and understand the flipping that happened to misc organisation. However I was able to achieve the same results in the course this way.

AlphaSimR older versions:

Assign year of birth for the founders

year = 0
founders = setMisc(x = founders,
node = "yearOfBirth",
value = year)
head(getMisc(x = founders, node = "yearOfBirth"))

AlphaSimR v1.6.0:

Assign year of birth for the founders

year = 0

founders@misc$yearOfBirth = rep(year, nInd(founders))
head(founders@misc$yearOfBirth)

[gregorgorjanc]

@metwallys indeed, we have removed setMisc() and getMisc() in 1.6 since the old approach was tricky to use and very slow. You are now using it correctly!

We are aware that we must update MOOC - the edX platform still uses the older version of AlphaSimR so it still works in the platform.

@gaynorr Maybe we should have added a deprecation message for setMisc() and getMisc()? Happy to do that if you agree!

[metwallys]

@gregorgorjanc thank you very much for your prompt response!