v0.9.16 (CRAN)

Changes in version 0.9.16 (2021-11-18)

This package version requires R >= 4.0.5

New functions

• combine_Dr_De() This function allows to model dose rate and equivalent dose distributions to obtain an age from Bayesian modelling using both distributions. In the back, a couple of additional functions have been added to support this novel approach. This function requires JAGS (supported through 'rjags') on your computer along with a couple of other R packages prompted to you when you first try to use this function.

• plot_OSLAgeSummary() Posterior distribution plot of ages. This function is used by combine_De_Dr(), however, it can be used as stand-alone plot.

Bugfixes and changes

analyse_FadingMeasurement()

• If run in a loop (e.g., with lapply()), merging of the results with merge_RLum() failed because the returned objects were not always strictly identical; fixed.

analyse_SAR.CWOSL()

• If all dose points were 0, the function crashed; fixed.

calc_CentralDose()

• The output in element output$summary was confusing for log = FALSE. While the terminal output was correct, no differentiation was made between absolute and relative values in the output object depending on the log mode. Now two more columns were added to report the overdispersion always in absolute units (whatever that may be) and relative (thanks to Li Bo for reporting this problem).
• No claim on the unit (e.g., Gy or s) is made in the terminal output anymore because we do not determine this information. Instead, now ‘abs.’ for absolute is used.

read_BIN2R()

• The function crashed if it was run in a loop and encountered non-supported files; fixed.
• The function does not crash anymore for zero-byte files but skips the import, returns a message and NULL.
• For BINX files created using an EM-CCD camera, the function created, under particular circumstances, invalid records that could not be further transformed; fixed (thanks to Anna-Maartje de Boer for reporting).

plot_RadialPlot()

• The function does not mess anymore with the par() settings of other subsequent plots

plot_GrowthCurve()

• The function crashed in combination with analyse_SAR.CWOSL(...,fit.weights = TRUE) for unfortunate Lx/Tx error values (means, Inf) caused by noise-like OSL data; fixed. Thanks to Frederik Baumgarten for reporting the issue.

Internals

• New dependency to the package 'mclust' is required by the two new functions.