oxcAAR
Interface to 'OxCal' Radiocarbon Calibration
Description
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.
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Show all 13 flavors
| Flavor | Status |
|---|---|
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc | OK |
| r-devel-windows-x86_64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-macos-arm64 | ERROR |
| r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 | OK |
| r-patched-linux-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-linux-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-macos-arm64 | OK |
| r-release-macos-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-windows-x86_64 | OK |
Check details (1 non-OK)
re-building of vignette outputs
Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘basic-usage.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
trying URL 'https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/OxCalDistribution.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 5367216 bytes (5.1 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 5.1 MB
sh: /Volumes/Temp/tmp/RtmpkduYqW/OxCal/bin/OxCalMac: Bad CPU type in executable
Quitting from basic-usage.Rmd:23-31 [unnamed-chunk-1]
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<error/rlang_error>
Error in `file()`:
! cannot open the connection
---
Backtrace:
▆
1. └─oxcAAR::oxcalCalibrate(5000, 25, "KIA-12345")
2. └─oxcAAR::readOxcalOutput(result_file)
3. └─base::scan(output_file, character(0), sep = "\n", quiet = T)
4. └─base::file(file, "r")
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Error: processing vignette 'basic-usage.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
cannot open the connection
--- failed re-building ‘basic-usage.Rmd’
SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
‘basic-usage.Rmd’
Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
Check History
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
re-building of vignette outputs
Error(s) in re-building vignettes: --- re-building ‘basic-usage.Rmd’ using rmarkdown trying URL 'https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/OxCalDistribution.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 5367216 bytes (5.1 MB) =========================================== ...[truncated]... ocessing vignette 'basic-usage.Rmd' failed with diagnostics: cannot open the connection --- failed re-building ‘basic-usage.Rmd’ SUMMARY: processing the following file failed: ‘basic-usage.Rmd’ Error: Vignette re-building failed. Execution halted
re-building of vignette outputs
Error(s) in re-building vignettes: --- re-building ‘basic-usage.Rmd’ using rmarkdown trying URL 'https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/OxCalDistribution.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 5367216 bytes (5.1 MB) =========================================== ...[truncated]... ocessing vignette 'basic-usage.Rmd' failed with diagnostics: cannot open the connection --- failed re-building ‘basic-usage.Rmd’ SUMMARY: processing the following file failed: ‘basic-usage.Rmd’ Error: Vignette re-building failed. Execution halted
Code
Structure
Lines of code
4,082
Files
73
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
29
Internal functions
79
Recent export changes
Testing & CI
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.33
testthat edition
–
CI present
No
CI type
[]
PR gated
No
Docs
Return-value doc rate
93.1%
\dontrun example ratio
100%
Roxygen coverage
100%
Has pkgdown
No
NEWS present
No
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
33.3%
Unsafe pattern score
5
Dep constraint coverage
0%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
–
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
GPL-2 | file LICENSE
License flags
SPDX valid, not OSI
History
Versions
4
First release
2018-02-09
Latest release
2025-12-12
Avg cadence
1110 days
Cold removal rate
–
Dep drift
1
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.