DESCRIPTION~

Package: archSeries
Title: Frequency Time-Series Tools for Archaeology
Version: 0.0.0.9001
Authors@R: c(
    person("David", "Orton", email = "david.orton@york.ac.uk", role = c("aut", "cre")),
    person("James", "Morris", email = "jmorris9@uclan.ac.uk", role = "ctb"))
Description: This package is designed to tackle a common problem in archaeology: the integration of
    information from multiple entities with varying chronological resolution and overlapping date 
    ranges. It includes functions for constructing overall chronological distributions from tables 
    of start dates, end dates, and weights, and for plotting those distributions in various ways. 
    Distributions may be calculated either by basic aoristic analysis or by simulation. In the 
    latter case, 'dummy sets' can also be calculated automatically based on uniformity or on a 
    custom null model. At present the package only supports aoristic analysis/simulation based on 
    assumption of uniform probability within date limits, and is only designed for frequency data. 
    In future we hope to implement: (a) ability to work with radiocarbon dates (e.g. using the 
    Bchron package); (b) ability to specify null models other than uniform or custom, and to fit 
    these to the data before simulating dummy sets; (c) tools for dealing with data types other 
    than frequency, e.g. metrical data.
Depends: R (>= 3.0.2),
    data.table
Imports: data.table (>= 1.9.4)
License: GPL (>= 2)
LazyData: true
Suggests: knitr
VignetteBuilder: knitr