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BayLum

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Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.

DOI Zenodo CRAN DOI

An R package for chronological Bayesian models integrated for Optically Stimulated (OSL) Luminescence Dating

To cite the R package 'BayLum' please cite the R package itself and the
following article:

  Christophe C, Philippe A, Kreutzer S, Guérin G, Baumgarten F,
  Frerebeau N (2025). _BayLum: Chronological Bayesian Models
  Integrating Optically Stimulated Luminescence and Radiocarbon Age
  Dating_. R package version 0.3.3,
  <https://CRAN.r-project.org/package=BayLum>.

  Philippe A, Guerin G, Kreutzer S (2019). "BayLum - An R package for
  Bayesian analysis of OSL ages: An introduction." _Quaternary
  Geochronology_, *49*, 16-24. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2018.05.009
  <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.05.009>.

Installation

You need to have JAGS installed on your computer.

You can install the released version of BayLum from CRAN with:

install.packages("BayLum")

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("crp2a/BayLum")

Please note that development versions may change day by day.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Acknowledgements

The development of BayLum received a state financial support managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) through the program Investissements d’avenir (ref. ANR-10-LABX-52) between 2015 and 2018.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.