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Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.

DOI Zenodo CRAN DOI

An R package for chronological Bayesian models integrated for Optically Stimulated (OSL) Luminescence Dating

To cite the R package 'BayLum' please cite the R package itself and the
following article:

  Christophe C, Philippe A, Kreutzer S, Guérin G, Baumgarten F,
  Frerebeau N (2024). _BayLum: Chronological Bayesian Models
  Integrating Optically Stimulated Luminescence and Radiocarbon Age
  Dating_. R package version 0.3.2,
  <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BayLum>.

  Philippe A, Guerin G, Kreutzer S (2019). "BayLum - An R package for
  Bayesian analysis of OSL ages: An introduction." _Quaternary
  Geochronology_, *49*, 16-24. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2018.05.009
  <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.05.009>.

Installation

You need to have JAGS installed on your computer.

You can install the released version of BayLum from CRAN with:

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("crp2a/BayLum")

Please note that development versions may change day by day.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Acknowledgements

The development of BayLum received a state financial support managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) through the program Investissements d’avenir (ref. ANR-10-LABX-52) between 2015 and 2018.