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slimr 0.4.0.9000

Updated slimr to be fully compatible with SLiM v4.1 updates
Changed SLIM_HOME environmental variable to SLIMR_PATH, which now should be set with the full path to the SLiM executable, not just the directory containing it
Updated slim_setup() function which now provides cross-platform automatic installation using conda via the reticulate package. Now it should not be necessary for users to manually install SLiM anymore

Added slim_auto() function to automatically insert r_template() and r_inline() statement in useful places in a slimr_script, based on computational graph analysis
Added as_slimr_code() function, which is similar to as_slimr_script(), which converts SLiM code as a character vector into a slimr_script object, but as_slimr_code() returns the code necessary to create the slimr_script instead. this allows copy and pasting the text into the R console or IDE so that it can be subsequently edited and modified.
Added vignette showing how to create a multispecies model in slimr, and documented the multispecies feature in the documentation for slim_block()

allow user to manually set SLiM executable directory with SLIM_HOME environmental variable

all SLiM callbacks now supported
slimr now fully supports SLiM versions 4.0 and greater, including support for multispecies models (though these have been extensively tested yet) and are currently undocumented
slimr verbs are now prefixed with r_ (e.g. r_output, r_inline, r_template). The old version slimr_ prefixed version are still available for backwards compatibility, but should be considered soft-deprecated

SLiM Classes available for help with autocomplete now have nested class objects (e.g. sim$subpopulations references a Subpopulation object, so you can then autocomplete sim$subpopulations$individuals, for example)
$ accessor can now be used in place of SLiM's . operator. (previously user's always had to use %.% to represent .)
slimr now replaces any <- assignment operators in SLiM code with =.

slim_run() function runs a slimr_script in SLiM and collects results
slimr 'verbs' implemented (slimr_template(), slimr_inline(), and slimr_output()). These can be used inside SLiM coding block to powerful effect!
slim_block() creates blocks of SLiM code, and slim_script() puts them together into scripts.
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