Luminescence: Comprehensive Luminescence Dating Data Analysis

A collection of various R functions for the purpose of Luminescence dating data analysis. This includes, amongst others, data import, export, application of age models, curve deconvolution, sequence analysis and plotting of equivalent dose distributions.

Version: 1.3.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.4), utils
Imports: bbmle (≥ 1.0.25.1), data.table (≥ 1.18.2.1), DEoptim (≥ 2.2-8), httr (≥ 1.4.8), interp (≥ 1.1-6), lamW (≥ 2.2.7), matrixStats (≥ 1.5.0), methods, minpack.lm (≥ 1.2-4), mclust (≥ 6.1.2), Rcpp (≥ 1.1.1), shape (≥ 1.4.6), parallel, XML (≥ 3.99-0.23)
LinkingTo: Rcpp (≥ 1.1.1)
Suggests: spelling (≥ 2.3.2), plotly (≥ 4.12.0), rmarkdown (≥ 2.31), rstudioapi (≥ 0.18.0), rjags (≥ 4-17), coda (≥ 0.19-4), knitr, pander (≥ 0.6.6), testthat (≥ 3.3.2), vdiffr (≥ 1.0.9), tiff (≥ 0.1-12), devtools (≥ 2.5.0), R.rsp (≥ 0.46.0)
Published: 2026-07-22
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.Luminescence
Author: Sebastian Kreutzer ORCID iD [aut, trl, cre, dtc], Christoph Burow ORCID iD [aut, trl, dtc], Michael Dietze ORCID iD [aut], Margret C. Fuchs ORCID iD [aut], Christoph Schmidt ORCID iD [aut], Manfred Fischer [aut, trl], Johannes Friedrich ORCID iD [aut], Norbert Mercier ORCID iD [aut], Rachel K. Smedley ORCID iD [ctb], Claire Christophe [ctb], Antoine Zink ORCID iD [ctb], Julie Durcan ORCID iD [ctb], Georgina E. King ORCID iD [ctb, dtc], Anne Philippe ORCID iD [aut], Guillaume Guérin ORCID iD [ctb], Svenja Riedesel ORCID iD [aut], Martin Autzen ORCID iD [aut], Pierre Guibert ORCID iD [ctb], Dirk Mittelstrass ORCID iD [aut], Harrison J. Gray ORCID iD [aut], Jean-Michel Galharret ORCID iD [aut], Marco Colombo ORCID iD [aut], Luc Steinbuch ORCID iD [aut], Anna-Maartje de Boer ORCID iD [aut], Andrzej Bluszcz ORCID iD [aut], Markus Fuchs ORCID iD [ths]
Maintainer: Sebastian Kreutzer <maintainer_luminescence at r-luminescence.org>
Contact: Package Developers <developers@r-luminescence.org>
BugReports: https://github.com/R-Lum/Luminescence/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://r-lum.github.io/Luminescence/
NeedsCompilation: yes
Language: en-US
Citation: Luminescence citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: Luminescence results

Documentation:

Reference manual: Luminescence.html , Luminescence.pdf
Vignettes: S4-class Object Structure in 'Luminescence' (source)
Assessing crosstalk in single-grain luminescence detection (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: Luminescence_1.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: Luminescence_1.2.1.zip, r-release: Luminescence_1.2.1.zip, r-oldrel: Luminescence_1.2.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): Luminescence_1.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): Luminescence_1.2.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): Luminescence_1.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): Luminescence_1.2.1.tgz
Old sources: Luminescence archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: RLumModel
Reverse imports: BayLum, OSLdecomposition, RLumShiny
Reverse suggests: sandbox

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