This repository contains the data, code, and manuscript source document for our paper:
van der Meulen-van der Veen, B. S., Rose, T., (2026). The bare necessities: Improving data quality in archaeometallurgy through reproducibility. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, submitted.
Please cite this compendium as:
Rose, T., van der Meulen-van der Veen, B. S., (2026). Compendium of R code and data for: The bare necessities: Improving data quality in archaeometallurgy through reproducibility. Accessed 26 Jun 2026. Online at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20931684
The analysis directory contains:
- 📁 paper: Quarto source document for
manuscript. Includes code to reproduce the figures and tables
generated by the analysis. It also has a rendered version,
paper.docx, suitable for reading (the code is replaced by figures and tables in this file) - 📁 data: Data used in the analysis.
- 📁 figures: Plots and other illustrations
- 📁 supplementary-materials: Supplementary materials including notes and other documents prepared and collected during the analysis.
The R directory contains functions written in the course of the study.
This research compendium has been developed using the statistical programming language R. To work with the compendium, you will need installed on your computer the R software itself and optionally RStudio Desktop.
You can download the compendium as a zip from from this URL:
master.zip. After unzipping: - open the .Rproj
file in RStudio - run devtools::install() to ensure you have the
packages this analysis depends on (also listed in the
DESCRIPTION file). - finally, open
analysis/paper/paper.qmd and knit to produce the paper.docx, or run
rmarkdown::render("analysis/paper/paper.qmd") in the R console
Text and figures : CC-BY-4.0
Code : See the DESCRIPTION file
Data : CC-0, attribution requested in reuse