Read, Write, and Convert XLUM Data

Support for the XLUM file format (Kreutzer et al. (2023) ) for exchange and long-term preservation of luminescence data. The package facilitates the import and export of XLUM files and the conversion from other ASCII and binary formats commonly used to store luminescence (dating) data.

xlum

The R package xlum interfaces with the XLUM data format for exchange and long-term preservation of luminescence data.

Installation

i. Requirements

Windows: Rtools (provided by CRAN)
macOS: Xcode (provided by Apple)
Linux: gcc often comes pre-installed in most distributions.

The plain R way

To install the stable version from CRAN, simply run the following from an R console:

install.packages("xlum")

To install the latest development builds directly from GitHub, run

if (!require("pak"))
  install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("R-Lum/xlum")

Note

The package comes without any guarantee!

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

The initial development of xlum received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 844457 (project: CREDit),
since 03/2023: Sebastian Kreutzer as maintainer of the package receives funding from the DFG Heisenberg programme No 505822867.
the contribution by Marco Colombo was enabled through the DFG programme “REPLAY: REProducible Luminescence Data AnalYses” No 528704761

References

Kreutzer, S., Grehl, S., Höhne, M., Simmank, O., Dornich, K., Adamiec, G., Burow, C., Roberts, H. M., Duller, G. A. T., 2023. XLUM: an open data format for exchange and long-term preservation of luminescence data. Geochronology, 5, 271-284.