calibrate {CPGchron}R Documentation

Calibrate a set of radiocarbon determinations

Description

The calibrate function will take a set of radiocarbon determinations and calibrate them via MCMC. The output should be *consistent* with that produced by other calibration methods, eg bcal, oxcal, calib.

Usage

calibrate(CALPATH, INFILE, OUTFILE, ndet)

Arguments

CALPATH A character string detailing the location and name of the calibration curve file. Note that CPGchron uses a specific version of the Northern hemisphere Intcal calibration curve. Other calibration curves are not supported.
INFILE A character string detailing the location and name of the determinations, as required by CPGchron package. See CPGmenu for more details.
OUTFILE A character string detailing the desired location and name of the output file.
ndet The number of radiocarbon determinations for this core.

Value

No output produced but the file specified in OUTFILE is populated by calibrated dates.

Author(s)

Andrew Parnell

References

Haslett and Parnell (2007; submitted to JRSSC)

Examples

    ## Given in CPGmenu    

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