[open-archaeology] draft of a CRAN Task View for Archaeology

Tue Jan 20 20:49:11 UTC 2015

Hello open-archaeology folks,

If you an R user, could I please ask you to have a look at this
CRAN Task View for Archaeology that I have drafted? (If you're not an R 
user, do check out the task view to see what it can do!)

The document is here: https://github.com/benmarwick/ctv-archaeology

I'd be most grateful if you could have a look at let me know of R things 
that you often use but I haven't yet included (issues and pull requests 
welcome). Thanks to those also on the anitiquist list who offered many 
helpful suggestions that I've just now incorporated.

As a well-established free and open source statistical programming 
language, I think R has a lot of potential to improve research 
efficiency and quality amongst archaeologists currently using expensive 
proprietary point-and-click programs. I hope a short annotated list like 
this, organized around common tasks of archaeological data analysis, 
might help them get started with R.

thanks and best wishes,

Ben

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Ben Marwick, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Denny Hall M32, Box 353100, University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3100 USA

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