NispElement: NispElement

In nmar79/SEAcalc: NISP and MNE counter for zooarch diagnostic zone databases

NispElement

Description

Calculate NISP for each element of a taxon for each layer/context. Reads a zooarchaeological database and returns a .csv file with counts of elements (in rows) by layers/contexts (in columns).

Usage

NispElement(data, taxon)

Arguments

data	a data frame with zooarchaeological data. Should contain "layer", "taxon", "element", and "zone" columns.
taxon	the name of a target taxon

Value

NISP per element for a by layer/context, as a csv file and a data frame object.

Examples

NispElement(read.csv("my_data.csv", "sheep")) #add fileEncoding="UTF-8-BOM" to remove junk character added to first column name, or change it manually

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