Luminescence
The R package 'Luminescence' by the R-Luminescence Group provides a
collection of various R functions for luminescence dating data analysis.
Social media and other resources
Visit our R-Luminescence homepage. News
and updates on 'Luminescence' are also available from the REPLAY
website.
Installation
i. Requirements
- Windows (32/64bit): Rtools (provided by CRAN)
- macOS: Xcode (provided by Apple)
- Linux: gcc often comes pre-installed in most distributions.
ii. Install the package
Install any development versions using our RStudio add-in
Alternatively, to install the latest development builds directly from GitHub, run:
if (!require("pak"))
install.packages("pak")
pak::pkg_install("R-Lum/Luminescence")Please note that the version on the GitHub master branch is a
development version and may change day by day. To install the stable
version from CRAN, simply run the following from an R console:
install.packages("Luminescence")For stable branches please visit the Luminescence package page on CRAN.
Contribute
The R-Luminescence project is based on and evolves from ideas, contributions and constructive criticism of its users. Help us maintain and improve the package by reporting bugs, requesting features, suggesting design improvements or contributing new functions.
Open an issue or write us an e-mail if anything crosses your mind or if you want your new self-written function to be to included in the package.
You are kindly invited to bring forward the package with us!
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.
Funding
2011-2013: The initial version of the package was developed in the framework of the PhD thesis by Sebastian Kreutzer, while he was funded through the DFG programme “Rekonstruktion der Umweltbedingungen des Spätpleistozäns in Mittelsachsen anhand von Löss-Paläobodensequenzen” (GEPRIS id: 46526743)
2014-2018: Cooperation and personal exchange between the developers is gratefully funded by the DFG in the framework of the program “Scientific Networks”. Project title: “RLum.Network: Ein Wissenschaftsnetzwerk zur Analyse von Lumineszenzdaten mit R” (GEPRIS id: 250974974)
05/2014-12/2019: The work of Sebastian Kreutzer as maintainer of the package was supported by LabEx LaScArBx (ANR - n. ANR-10-LABX-52).
01/2020-04/2022: Sebastian Kreutzer as maintainer of the package has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 844457 (CREDit), and could continue maintaining the package.
since 03/2023: Sebastian Kreutzer as maintainer of the package receives funding from the DFG Heisenberg programme No 505822867.
since 08/2024 the future and sustainable development of
'Luminescence'towards better reproducibility and usability is supported through the DFG programme “REPLAY: REProducible Luminescence Data AnalYses” No 528704761 led by Dr Sebastian Kreutzer (PI at Heidelberg University, DE (until 2025), LIAG - Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover, DE (from 2026)) and Dr Thomas Kolb (PI at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, DE).All other authors gratefully received additional funding from various public funding bodies.
