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sandbox

Creating and analysing synthetic sediment sections with R

Installation

To install the latest development builds directly from GitHub, run

if(!require("devtools"))
  install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("coffeemuggler/sandbox@<wanted branch>")

License

License: GNU General Public License, Version 3, 29 June 2007

Copyright © 2021 coffeemuggler developers community

sandbox 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 (at your option) any later version. sandbox 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Citation

Please use both of the below references when citing the usage of the package. It is important to not just use one of them but the two.

Dietze, M., Kreutzer, S. (2021): sandbox - an R tool for creating and analysing synthetic sediment sections. V. 0.2.0. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.6.2021.005

Dietze, M., Kreutzer, S., Fuchs, M. C., and Meszner, S.: sandbox – Creating and Analysing Synthetic Sediment Sections with R, Geochronology Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2021-39, in review, 2021.

Funding

Sebastian Kreutzer received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 844457 (project: CREDit).

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Install

install.packages('sandbox')

Monthly Downloads

239

Version

0.2.2

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Michael Dietze

Last Published

August 21st, 2025

Functions in sandbox (0.2.2)

convert_units

Convert between phi units and micrometers
prepare_Subsample

Prepare Subsamples from a Sample Dataset
sample

Example Grain Size Data
get_RuleBook

Get One of a Series of Predefined Rule Books for a Model Run.
measure_SAR_OSL

Measure an aliquot with the CW SAR OSL protocol
add_Population

Add a Population to a Rule Book
add_Rule

Add a Rule to a Rule Book
make_Sample

Create a Virtual Sample.
prepare_Aliquot

Prepare Aliquots from Sample Dataset
prepare_Sieving

Sieve a Sample
set_Parameter

Set Profile- and Grain-Specific Model Parameters.
set_Rule

Set depth-dependent rule for model parameter.
sample_osl_aliquots

Aliquots Prepared to Measured Virtually
sandbox-package

Probabilistic Numerical Modelling of Sediment Properties
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