This is a beta version of Plum (see: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13253-018-0328-7).

- this version is the beta version of Plum, for the official R version see rplum.

Plum is a R-package, with dependencies on Python 2.7, which uses a Bayesian approach to construct age-depth models for 210Pb data. At the moment Plum only works in Unix base OS (Linux-Mac) it depends on rPython package which is only available in these systems.

rplum has being accepted into CRAN (the R reposatories). For downloading this version use

install.packages('rplum')

library(rplum)

Plum()

In order to install plum the following have to be install in your system,

• R (>=3.0)
• rPython (R package)
• Python 2.7
• numpy (python package)
• scipy (python package)
• matplotlib (python package)

In the case of Mac OS, we recommend the installation of Anaconda (https://www.anaconda.com/download/). This will install python 2.7 and the necessary packages.

For linux, Arch pacman -S python2 python2-numpy python2-scipy python2-matplotlib

Fedora yum install python python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib

Ubuntu apt install python python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotli

To install rPython use install.packages("rPython", configure.vars= "RPYTHON_PYTHON_VERSION=2") this will let R know to use python 2.7.

library(devtools)

install_github("maquinolopez/Plum")

For questions contact me at: [email protected]