skyscapeR

June 16, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

skyscapeR is an open source R package for data reduction, visualization and analysis in skyscape archaeology, archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy. Its aim is to be a fully-fledged, transparent and peer-reviewed package offering a robust set of quantitative methods while still retaining simplicity of use.

For an introduction to skyscapeR check the official vignette.

Installation

if(!requireNamespace("remotes", quietly = TRUE)) { install.packages("remotes") }
remotes::install_github('stonexsky/skyscapeR', dependencies = TRUE)

Release Notes

v1.2 (Current experimental build)

Several developments being worked on.

v1.1

Several changes currently being tested and/or finalised. Thoroughly tested on Mac OS X, but also installed on Windows and Linux.

v1.0.0

New CRAN release: major overhaul of package with new functionality throughout.