aion: Archaeological Time Series

A toolkit for archaeological time series and time intervals. This package provides a system of classes and methods to represent and work with archaeological time series and time intervals. Dates are represented as "rata die" and can be converted to (virtually) any calendar defined by Reingold and Dershowitz (2018) doi:10.1017/9781107415058 . This packages offers a simple API that can be used by other specialized packages.

Details

Package:	aion
Type:	Package
Version:	1.2.0
License:	GPL-3
Zenodo:	doi:10.5281/zenodo.8032278

Package options

aion uses the following options() to configure behaviour:

• aion.precision: an integer indicating the number of decimal places (defaults to NA).

• aion.calendar: a TimeScale object (default calendar for printing).

See also

Useful links:

• https://packages.tesselle.org/aion/

• https://github.com/tesselle/aion

• Report bugs at https://github.com/tesselle/aion/issues

Author

Full list of authors and contributors (alphabetic order):

Nicolas Frerebeau	Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
Brice Lebrun	Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
Joe Roe	Universität Bern, Switzerland

Package maintainer

Nicolas Frerebeau
nicolas.frerebeau@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr

Archéosciences Bordeaux (UMR 6034)
Maison de l'Archéologie
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
F-33607 Pessac cedex
France