Workshop R for Archaeology

Authors

Affiliations

Ronald Visser

Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Alex Brandsen

Universiteit Leiden

Anne Dijkstra

Nederlands Forensisch Instituut

Introduction

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the programming language R to solve archaeological problems. Specifically, we will show how to manage R projects, load in archaeological data, do descriptive statistics and plot data in different ways.

We assume you have already installed R and RStudio, if you haven’t, please do so now. You can download R here: https://cran.r-project.org/. After you have installed R you can install RStudio, which is found here: https://posit.co/downloads/

If you want to learn more basis aspects or R, you can try, for example, this course: https://www.w3schools.com/R/default.asp.