R Observatory: Metrics for rcarbon version 1.5.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rcarbon

1.5.2Package record

Calibration and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates

2packages dependsuggested by 1

11.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Enrico CremaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Enables the calibration and analysis of radiocarbon dates, often but not exclusively for the purposes of archaeological research. It includes functions not only for basic calibration, uncalibration, and plotting of one or more dates, but also a statistical framework for building demographic and related longitudinal inferences from aggregate radiocarbon date lists, including: Monte-Carlo simulation test (Timpson et al 2014 doi:10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.011), random mark permutation test (Crema et al 2016 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154809) and spatial permutation tests (Crema, Bevan, and Shennan 2017 doi:10.1016/j.jas.2017.09.007).

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ahb108/rcarbon")

Development version from ahb108/rcarbon. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-rcarbon

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-rcarbon

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-rcarbon

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 56 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 52%22 run in a plain check · 20 never run
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 27%

Vignettes (1)

Analysing radiocarbon dates using the rcarbon package

How these are measured

Downloads

11.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,884 · ~30/day · ~924/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

85130 days

2.4K90 days

11.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on173 r2u4 autocran580 conda_forge58 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ahb108/rcarbon ↗Account: ahb108

37Stars

21Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

16Releases

887Commits

13Commit identities

887 commits · Last activity 2025-07-28 · +2.8% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-21 · 352026-09-28 · 37

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ahb108/rcarbon on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rcarbon adds 33 packages (21 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, spatstat 4.3 MB, spatstat.data 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (15)

sfstatsspatstat.geom spatstat.model spatstat.explore spatstat.linnet spatstat (>= 2.0-0)graphicsgrDevicesutilssnow doSNOW foreach iterators knitr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rmarkdown rnaturalearth rnaturalearthdata testthat (>= 2.1.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

nimbleCarbon spDates

Suggests, most downloaded first

palimpsestr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Enrico Crema

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.0 (2018)

Andrew Bevan

Author

R. Kyle Bocinsky

Contributor · added in 1.3.2

Martin Hinz

Contributor · added in 1.3.1

Philip Riris

Contributor · added in 1.3.1

Fabio Silva

Contributor · added in 1.1.2

Previously maintained by Andrew Bevan (1.0.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

R. Kyle Boncinsky

no longer listed · 1.3.1

Releases (18)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.2Latest
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2025-07-28 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.5.1
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2023-08-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
qCal
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.5.0
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2022-11-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
SPpermTest, spweights
1.4.4
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2022-07-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-02-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.4.2
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2021-03-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
poolDates
1.4.1
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2020-10-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
transformSPD
1.4.0
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2020-08-25 · diff ↗
1.3.3
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2020-08-04 · diff ↗
1.3.2
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2020-07-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
combine, hpdi, multiplot, stackspd

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.3.1
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2020-03-18 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2019-12-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
spd2gg

added 11 exports
as.CalDates, as.UncalGrid, ckde, gaussW, sampleDates, spd2rc, spkde, sptest, stkde, thinDates, which.CalDates
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.2.0
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2018-10-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mixCurves
1.1.3
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-03-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
p2pTest, spd2gg
1.0.0
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2017-10-09
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-10-09
Total releases: 18 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 413 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.5 MB

Appears in task views

Chemometrics and Computational Physics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rcarbon")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1017/rdc.2020.95.

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 rcarbon version 1.5.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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