Bifacial-radiance

Development release to test multi-object and performance updates.

What's Changed
* 405 multiple analysis objs by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/408
* 405 multiple analysis objs 2 by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/409
* 421 make image by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/422
* 405 multiple analysis objs by shirubana in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/429
* Add 'columns' and 'methods' introspection to RadObj, MetObj and GrounObj by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/495
* 460 multiple results by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/486
* AgriPV Groundscans by shirubana in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/497
* Results refactor by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/504
* Multi scene objs by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/487
* Refactored code to include functions for ground analysis by sofiatoropovaa in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/499
* Refactor NSRDBWeatherData into readWeatherData by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/496
* change how timestamps are created in _saveTempTMY. Fixes 515. by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/517
* Add checks for RAYPATH. Fixes 525 by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/537
* Suppress hub-height warnings when both clearance_height and hub_heigh… by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/540
* bump to pandas 1.4.4 and numba 0.58.1 in requirements.txt by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/542
* Create descriptive repr for MetObj and RadianceObj. Fixes 471 by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/544
* Modify how CEC performance data is saved. Issue 512 by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/543
* Silvana issues fixing by shirubana in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/545
* fixes 441. Changed how the metadata is indexed in gendaylit1axis - … by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/550
* 438 inifile change load.py to include more module inputs by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/551
* Fix leap day bug in readWeatherFile. fixes 552. by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/553
* Fix incorrect saving of rearX and rearY when sensorsY is an array. Fixes 501 by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/558
* Add deprecation warnings fixes 556 by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/561
* Add deprecation warnings fixes 556 by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/560
* Fix load.cleanResult to work with files created with different sensorsy by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/562
* Changes made to get spectral example notebook to work by mjprilliman in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/554

New Contributors
* sofiatoropovaa made their first contribution in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/499

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/compare/0.4.3...v0.5.0-dev1

Major bugfix - previously there was an uncaught problem with a mismatch between the trackerdict index and the MetObj index, leading to mismatch between irradiance values and tracker angles.

What's Changed
* Add checks for RAYPATH properly being installed. Fixes 525 by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/537
* Suppress hub-height warnings when both clearance_height and hub_heigh… by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/540
* Improve repr printing of MetObj and RadianceObj. by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/544
* Add glassEdge parameter in modules so that the glass extends beyond the cell size. by shirubana in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/545
* Fixed a bug in how the metadata is indexed in gendaylit1axis. fixes 441. by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/550
* change load.py to include more module inputs by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/551
* Fix leap day bug in readWeatherFile. fixes 552. by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/553
* Add deprecation warnings on soon to be removed functions. by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/561
* Fix load.cleanResult to work with files created with different sensorsy by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/562
* Improved error messages, documentation and test coverage by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/563
* V0 4 4 final checks by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/565


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/compare/0.4.3...0.4.4

Bug fix and minor release
What's Changed
* mad fn update by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/485
* Addition of Artificial Reflectors Tutorial by mandylewis in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/475
* Update jupyter notebooks based on latest main branch by mjprilliman in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/514
* bugfix by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/522
* Fix mismatch fit3, add mismatch fit2 by echedey-ls in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/520
* Enclose file names used for radfiles in quotes. Fixes 523. by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/527
* deprecation warnings by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/528
* Enable coerce_year=None. Fixes 526 by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/529
* Fix deprecations by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/530
* pass a copy of sceneDict to _makeSceneNxR. fixes 502. by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/503
* add pyRadiance to setup.py install_requires to help with RADIANCE install issues. by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/532
* files saved to \results\ with 3 decimal floats. by cdeline in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/534

New Contributors
* mandylewis made their first contribution in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/475
* mjprilliman made their first contribution in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/514
* echedey-ls made their first contribution in https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/pull/520

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/compare/0.4.2...0.4.3

Bug fix and minor release, returning ModuleObj.text functionality. New functions ModuleObj.saveImage and SceneObj.saveImage automatically save a picture to /images/. This is done by default by the gui, and is controlled in modelchain by simulationParamsDict['saveImage'] = True.

Python 3.7 support is dropped (it should still work though). Example notebook gallery updates in readthedocs.

Minor bug fix update, fixing some GUI startup issues and assorted minor errors from the 0.4.0 release.

Requirements.txt has been updated. Python 3.10 support added and Python 3.6 support dropped (it should still work though).

This is a major release which includes new spectral property class, object-oriented ModuleObj class and other improvements for more seamless use with dask and paralellization.

Major usage changes include a ModuleObj output from makeModule, allowing updating geometry and adding module features (adding a torque tube with .addTorquetube, frame members using .addFrame, etc ). This release also changes start and end time format to ‘YYYY-MM-DD_HHMM’ enabling multi-year and sub-hourly met file support.

See what's new at [bifacial-radiance.readthedocs.io.](https://bifacial-radiance.readthedocs.io/en/latest/whatsnew.html#v0-4-0-02-03-2022)