This package allows the user to apply four protocols of multivariate statistics for exploring archaeometric data, including geochemical and mineralogical compositions, and semi-quantitative petrographic characterizations. Protocols wrap several methods used in Geology and Ecology, relying on ade4 and vegan packages.

Tested in Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.9.5.

Dependencies (packages you must install before installing cerUB):

• ade4
• vegan
• dbscan
• pcaPP
• robCompositions
• setRNG
• stringr

If you use this package, cite it like this:

Angourakis, Andreas, & Martínez Ferreras, Verònica. (2017, September 23). cerUB - Protocols for exploring archaeometric data (R package). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.975451

And cite our publication that describes the statistics used:

Angourakis, Andreas, Verònica Martínez Ferreras, Alexis Torrano, and Josep M. Gurt Esparraguera. 2018. “Presenting Multivariate Statistical Protocols in R Using Roman Wine Amphorae Productions in Catalonia, Spain.” Journal of Archaeological Science 93 (May): 150–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.03.007.

You can install the development version of this package from GitHub by running these lines in your console:

if (!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools") # this will install devtools package, if not installed already
devtools::install_github("Andros-Spica/cerUB")  

Please see the tutorial at https://github.com/Andros-Spica/cerUB_tutorial