[open-archaeology] Open Science Stack Exchange site

Sun Jan 25 22:23:41 UTC 2015

If you are familiar with the programming Q&A website stackoverflow.com 
(which in turn is part of the stackexchange network of Q&A sites), you 
might be interested to see the proposal for a Q&A site on Open Science, 
here:

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/65426/open-science?referrer=dEkgL03KR6KlvQRFh5DO2w2

Many of the example questions look quite relevant to archaeology:

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/65426/open-science?phase=definition&tab=votes#tab-top

Ben

On 21/01/2015 9:07 AM, Ben Marwick wrote:
> Thanks Agustin, I've never heard of those. I've added them to the task
> view now.
>
> On 21/01/2015 2:44 AM, Agustin Diez Castillo wrote:
>> 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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>>>
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>>>
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