README.md

In cuboideum/deadpop: Analysis of Skeletal Populations

Analysis of Skeletal Populations

Description

This R package is an appendix to Felix Engel's dissertation thesis "Traces of Armed Conflict: Methodological Implications from Anthropological Graveyard Analyses - Applied to the Site lauchheim 'Wasserfurche' With Special Reference to Cranial Trauma". It provides functions for a number of analyses on skeletal material developed and discussed there:

• Moving focus approach for assessing spatial patterns in cemetery layouts (function 'SpatialNeighbours')
• Calibration of Prevalences (function 'Pcal')
• Production of age profiles from age-at-death estimates (function 'ProportionalAgeDistribution')
• Simulation of material preservation bias on anthropological analyses (functions 'PresMod' and 'PresSer')
• Assessment of material preservation bias in anthropological analyses (function 'Pderiv')

Installation using devtools

You can use the devtools package to install this package directly from this repository by following these steps:

1. Install devtools from within R

install.packages("devtools")

Depending on your system, various prerequisites might have to be met for devtools to install correctly. Please refer to the respective documentation.

1. Install deadpop from within R

require(devtools)
install_github("cuboideum/deadpop", local = FALSE)

cuboideum/deadpop documentation built on Feb. 5, 2021, 11:21 p.m.