NEWS.md

In BayLum: Chronological Bayesian Models Integrating Optically Stimulated Luminescence and Radiocarbon Age Dating

BayLum 0.3.2 (2024-06-16)

This version of 'BayLum' requires R>=4.1.x!

New functions

create_DataFile()

This function attempts to ease the very pain-stacking process of input data processing (BIN/BINX files) so that it can be used in the 'BayLum' modelling. The function is an entirely new development and will replace the functions Generate_DataFile_MG() and Generate_DataFile() in future versions of 'BayLum'. Key features:

• Only one function for single-grain and multiple-grain data
• Support for BIN/BINX and XSYG files and RLum.Analysis-class objects, i.e. the data can be imported independently of the data file creation
• A new single-file configuration based on the YAML format. This makes the old error-prone folder structure obsolete
• Various internal consistency checks to avoid input data are erroneousness; which may lead to very hard to-track-down error messages
• Carries information about the number of samples and the sample names

plot_RegDosePoints()

• The function will replace the deprecated fucntion LT_RegenDose(), which was too error-prone and complicated to maintain.

write_YAMLConfigFile()

This function supplements create_DataFile() supporting auto-generated YAML config template files

Bugfixes and changes

Age_OSLC14()

• Determines the sample name automatically by default.

Age_Computation()

• Determines the sample name automatically by default.

AgeS_Computation()

• Determines the sample name automatically by default.

combine_DataFiles()

• Now preserves the originator attribute

SCMatrix()

• Interactive mode is now more beautiful and consistently
• Can now extract information from an object created by create_DataFile()

SC_Ordered()

• Can handle objects created by create_DataFile() for easier usage.

Miscellaneous

• Drop dependency to deprecated package 'ArchaeoPhases' and make corresponding code an internal function (PR #33, @nfrerebeau)

• Add dependencies to the packages 'yaml' and 'cli'

• Bump version requirement for 'Luminescence' to >= v0.9.22

• Add new external files example.yml and yaml_config_reference.yml

• Internal datasets DATA1, DATA2, DATA3 were updated to be consistent with the new function create_DataFile()

Deprecated functions

The following functions are deprecated and will be removed in future versions of BayLum

• Generate_DataFile()
• Generate_DataFile_MG()
• LT_RegenDose()

BayLum documentation built on June 22, 2024, 10:18 a.m.