The R package ‘RCarb’ provides a collection of various R functions to model dose rates in carbonate-rich samples. The package is a translation of the ‘MATLAB’ program Carb by Roger P. Nathan.

## Installation of the developer version

To install the latest development builds of ‘RCarb’ directly from GitHub, run

if(!require("devtools"))
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("R-Lum/RCarb@master")

To install a developer build other than ‘master’, replace the term ‘master’ in the codeline by the name of the wanted developer build (not available yet).

Please further note that our ‘GitHub’ versions are developer versions and subject to daily changes. For stable please versions download the package from CRAN.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

## References

Nathan, R.P., Mauz, B., 2008. On the dose-rate estimate of carbonate-rich sediments for trapped charge dating. Radiation Measurements 43, 14–25. doi: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.12.012

Mauz, B., Hoffmann, D., 2014. What to do when carbonate replaced water: Carb, the model for estimating the dose rate of carbonate-rich samples. Ancient TL 32, 24–32. http://ancienttl.org/ATL_32-2_2014/ATL_32-2_Mauz_p24-32.pdf