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

[Agustin Diez Castillo]

Thanks Ben for gathering all this stuff, wonderful job.
I do miss some packages that I use here and there like ipdw [1] to do interpolations, geoR  [2] to do statistics and being open readODS [3]
[1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ipdw/index.html
[2] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/geoR/index.html
[3] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/readODS/index.html
On 20Jan, 2015, at 9:49 PM, Ben Marwick <bmarwick at uw.edu> wrote:

> 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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