R Observatory: Metrics for archdata version 1.2-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

archdata

1.2-1Package record

Example Datasets from Archaeological Research

0packages dependsuggested by 1

584.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David L. CarlsonCRAN page ↗

The archdata package provides several types of data that are typically used in archaeological research. It provides all of the data sets used in "Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R" by David L Carlson, one of the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("archdata", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-archdata

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-archdata

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-archdata

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘David L. Carlson <dcarlson@tamu.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("David", "L."),
                      family = "Carlson",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "dcarlson@tamu.edu"),
               person(given = "Georg",
                      family = "Roth",
                      role = "ctb"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2-1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 28includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%27 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 82%

How these are measured

Downloads

584.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #456 · ~1.6K/day · ~48.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

75.2K30 days

175.7K90 days

584.7K1 year

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Also on116 r2u31 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing archdata adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

ca circular plotrixMASSspatstat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

heplots

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

David L. Carlson

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2014)

Georg Roth

Contributor · added in 1.1

Releases (5)

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-07-15
Total releases: 5 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 48 KB / 27 files
Download size: 75 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("archdata")

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for archdata version 1.2-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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