It has been a while since our previous update concerning RLumShiny. However, work on that front has continued and in the last month we had not only one but two releases (more on that below).
The work leading to the RLumShiny 0.2.7 release concentrated on adding three new apps and improving the internal infrastructure to import more file types.
Much of the work that took place during the Luminescence 1.1.0 timeframe
was devoted to adding new features to RLumShiny, the graphical
interface to Luminescence built on the Shiny framework. We see this
package as a good entry point to become acquainted with some of the functions
provided by Luminescence and their various options.
Our work for the RLumShiny 0.2.5 release concentrated on adding a bunch of new apps:
aliquotsize to either estimate the number of grains on an aliquot or to
compute the packing density (based on calc_AliquotSize());
One of the goals of the REPLAY project is to facilitate interfacing
with the Luminescence package. This is a rather ambitious goal, but luckily
there is already something available to make the use of Luminescence more
direct and approachable.
The RLumShiny package integrates a bunch of Luminescence
functions into a web-based app built on top of the shiny framework.
This allows the users to work interactively with their data, letting them
explore the available options and see how they affect the plots and results.
This provides an easy entry point to discover what the package provides while
performing an analysis of interest, or perhaps just playing around with sample
data.