Landscape Archaeology and Reproducible Research

Here you will find the talks (or links to the talks) of our session as well as useful material and links that should get you started practicing reproducible research.

Useful links

CRAN Task View: Archaeological Science by Ben Marwick

• https://github.com/benmarwick/ctv-archaeology
• It contains a list of packages useful for scientific work in Archaeology, grouped by topic

Software

• R: the base of all
• RStudio: "modern" IDE for R that allows you to create literate programming documents with ease (supplemented by the packages rmarkdown (https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/) and knitr (https://yihui.name/knitr/) and the universal document converter pandoc)
• Zotero: bibliography management with browser support to manage your reference database and create BibTeX files to be used in your literate programming document
• git: the solution for version controlling your project

Online learning material

• R-Mailinglists (link); specifically for geographic questions: R-sig-geo (link).
• MOOCs: coursera, edX, udacity
• interactive tutorials: datacamp; a nice collection can be found here
• access to the vast world of R blogs and bloggers: R-Bloggers
• try R live in your browser: here or here