The goal of the islay package is to provide a high-quality teaching dataset for archaeologists using R. It includes various datasets relating to the prehistoric archaeology of the Scottish island of Islay (pronounced “EYE-luh”) and recorded by the ‘Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project’ (Mithen et al. 2000).
You can install the development version of islay from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("joeroe/islay")The package currently includes one dataset, islay_sites:
library(islay)
islay_sites
#> # A tibble: 44 × 7
#> site_code site_name period longi…¹ latit…² total…³ source
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr>
#> 1 Black Park Quarry Black Park Quarry Mesolithic -6.32 55.8 NA <NA>
#> 2 GRU1 Gruinart 1 Later Pre… -6.32 55.8 31 Field…
#> 3 GRU9 Gruinart 9 Later Pre… -6.31 55.8 35 Field…
#> 4 Aoradh Aoradh Mesolithic -6.35 55.8 NA <NA>
#> 5 Killellan Killellan Mesolithi… -6.35 55.9 NA <NA>
#> 6 KRD2 Kindrochid 2 Mesolithi… -6.42 55.8 186 Field…
#> 7 Sanaigmore Sanaigmore Later Pre… -6.42 55.8 NA <NA>
#> 8 Kindrochid ditch Kindrochid ditch Mesolithic -6.42 55.8 NA <NA>
#> 9 KRD4 Kindrochid 4 Mesolithic -6.42 55.8 NA Colle…
#> 10 KRD3 Kindrochid 3 Mesolithi… -6.46 55.8 103 Field…
#> # … with 34 more rows, and abbreviated variable names ¹longitude, ²latitude,
#> # ³total_chipped_stone