GCD

Global Charcoal Database

v4.0.7 · Oct 26, 2020 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Contains the Global Charcoal database data. Data include charcoal series (age, depth, charcoal quantity, associated units and methods) and information on sedimentary sites (localisation, depositional environment, biome, etc.) as well as publications informations. Since 4.0.0 the GCD mirrors the online SQL database at <http://paleofire.org>.

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CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Olivier Blarquez <blarquez@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Global", "Paleofire", "Working"),
                      family = "Group",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "paleofire@univ-fcomte.fr"),
               person(given = "Olivier",
                      family = "Blarquez",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "blarquez@gmail.com"))
as necessary.

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Maintainer: ‘Olivier Blarquez <blarquez@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Global", "Paleofire", "Working"),
                      family = "Group",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "paleofire@univ-fcomte.fr"),
               person(given = "Olivier",
                      family = "Blarquez",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "blarquez@gmail.com"))
as necessary.

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  All declared Imports should be used.

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  All declared Imports should be used.

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No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Global", "Paleofire", "Working"),
                      family = "Group",
                      role = 
...[truncated]...
ut",
                      email = "paleofire@univ-fcomte.fr"),
               person(given = "Olivier",
                      family = "Blarquez",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "blarquez@gmail.com"))
as necessary.

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Olivier Blarquez <blarquez@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Global", "Paleofire", "Working"),
                      family = "Group",
                      role = 
...[truncated]...
ut",
                      email = "paleofire@univ-fcomte.fr"),
               person(given = "Olivier",
                      family = "Blarquez",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "blarquez@gmail.com"))
as necessary.

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

dependencies in R code

Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘raster’
  All declared Imports should be used.

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

dependencies in R code

Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘raster’
  All declared Imports should be used.

NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

package dependencies

Package suggested but not available for checking: ‘paleofire’

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package dependencies

Package suggested but not available for checking: ‘paleofire’

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Version History

new 4.0.7 Mar 10, 2026

updated 4.0.7 ← 4.0.6 diff Oct 25, 2020

updated 4.0.6 ← 4.0.5 diff Feb 27, 2020

updated 4.0.5 ← 4.0.4 diff Dec 10, 2019

updated 4.0.4 ← 4.0.3 diff Nov 27, 2018

updated 4.0.3 ← 4.0.2 diff Aug 19, 2018

updated 4.0.2 ← 4.0.1 diff May 1, 2018

updated 4.0.1 ← 4.0.0 diff Mar 26, 2018

updated 4.0.0 ← 3.0.5 diff Feb 28, 2018

updated 3.0.5 ← 3.0.4 diff Apr 21, 2015

updated 3.0.4 ← 3.0.3 diff May 21, 2014

updated 3.0.3 ← 3.0.2 diff Apr 30, 2014

updated 3.0.2 ← 3.0.1 diff Apr 8, 2014

updated 3.0.1 ← 3.0 diff Mar 12, 2014

new 3.0 Nov 14, 2013