The current version of the MSEtool package is available for download from CRAN.

MSEtool 3.0.0

This is a new major release of the MSEtool package. It is not backwards compatible with previous versions of MSEtool or DLMtool.

Major Changes

• The most significant change in this version is that the MSEtool package now contains all code related to generating operating models, simulating fisheries dynamics, conducting management strategy evaluation, and examining the results (previously in the DLMtool package). This change was primarily done to better align the actual contents of the packages with the respective package names.
• MSEtool now only has a set of reference management procedures (e.g., FMSYref)
• The Data-Limited Methods Toolkit package now contains the collection of data-limited methods, and uses MSEtool V3+ as a dependency; i.e., installing and loading DLMtool will also install and load MSEtool and make all functions for generating OMs, conducting MSE, etc available.
• The operating model has been updated and an age-0 age-class has been added to the population dynamics model; i.e., recruitment is now to age-0 (previously the OM in DLMtool had recruitment to age-1).
• The catch-at-age (CAA) in the Data object now includes age-0 (i.e., all age data must be length maxage+1)