ChronochRt
ChronochRt offers an easy way to draw chronological charts from tables. It aims to provide an intuitive environment for anyone new to R and includes ggplot2 geoms and theme for chronological charts.
Installation
You can install the released version of ChronochRt from CRAN with:
install.packages("chronochrt")or install the development version with the newest bugfixes and features from gitlab with:
devtools::install_github("archaeothommy/chronochrt")You are very welcome to contribute to the package through forking the repository or creating an issue to suggest changes.
Features
- Slim structure of chronological datasets
- Import tabular data files
- Import Excel files (requires the package readxl)
- Possibility to display up to 2 chronological systems within the same region (e.g. long and short chronologies)
- Layout of the chronological chart optimised for easy readability and comprehensibility
- Years in BCE must be negative - that’s all you need to care about dates
- Handling of insecure dates
- Handling of gaps, e.g. abandonment phases of sites
- Optional text labels
- Optional image labels to e.g. display key finds or show typological developments
- Geoms for the chronological chart and image labels
- Export of the chronological chart in different file formats (raster and vector graphics)
- Easy customisation of the chronological chart
- Based on the tidyverse: Seamless integration in pipes, enhanced customisation with ggplot2
Is there a feature missing? Please let us know by creating an issue.
Example
library(ChronochRt)
data <- add_chron(region = "A",
name = c("A", "A1", "A2", "B"),
start = c(-200, -200, 0, -100),
end = c(200, 0, 200, 100),
level = c(1,2,2,1),
add = FALSE,
new_table = TRUE)
plot_chronochrt(data)Getting started
Funding for the development of ChronochRt 0.0.5
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 766311.