R Observatory: Metrics for oxcAAR version 1.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

oxcAAR

1.1.2Package record

Interface to 'OxCal' Radiocarbon Calibration

0packages dependsuggested by 3

4.5Kdownloads / year

65.6%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hinz MartinCRAN page ↗

A set of tools that enables using 'OxCal' from within R. 'OxCal' (https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/oxcal.html) is a standard archaeological tool intended to provide 14C calibration and analysis of archaeological and environmental chronological information. 'OxcAAR' allows simple calibration with 'Oxcal' and plotting of the results as well as the execution of sophisticated ('OxCal') code and the import of the results of bulk analysis and complex Bayesian sequential calibration.

Install

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

install.packages("oxcAAR", 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-oxcaar

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-oxcAAR

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-oxcAAR

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

2ERROR11OK

Check messages

ERRORre-building of vignette outputsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-patched-linux-x86_64

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘basic-usage.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
trying URL 'https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/OxCalDistribution.zip'

Quitting from basic-usage.Rmd:23-31 [unnamed-chunk-1]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
no 'restart' 'muffleWarning' found
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Quitting from basic-usage.Rmd:23-31 [unnamed-chunk-1]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
invokeRestart("muffleWarning")
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Error: processing vignette 'basic-usage.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
no 'restart' 'muffleWarning' found
--- failed re-building ‘basic-usage.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘basic-usage.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-10-22
OK13 OK2026-09-22
ERROR12 OK, 2 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.2

READMEYes · 168 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 35
Examples that run: 0%9 never run
Exported functions with examples: 31%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Basic Usage

How these are measured

Downloads

4.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,272 · ~12/day · ~375/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34330 days

90490 days

4.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on85 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing oxcAAR adds 9 packages (7 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

stringi stringr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr testthat rmarkdown ggplot2 ggridgesmethods

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

stratigraphr nimbleCarbon palimpsestr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Hinz Martin

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Daniel Knitter

Author

Clemens Schmid

Author

Carolin Tietze

Author

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.2Latest
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2025-12-12 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.1
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2021-07-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.1.0
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2021-02-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
Boundary, Phase, Sequence, get_posterior_probabilities, get_posterior_sigma_ranges, wrap_in_boundaries
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.0
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2018-02-09
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-02-09
Total releases: 4 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-2 | file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 237 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("oxcAAR")

Format

Martin, H., Knitter, D., Schmid, C., & Tietze, C. (2025). oxcAAR: Interface to 'OxCal' Radiocarbon Calibration (Version 1.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.oxcAAR

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for oxcAAR version 1.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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