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Reads MCMC output.

Usage

read_oxcal(file, ...)

# S4 method for class 'character'
read_oxcal(file, calendar = CE())

Arguments

file

A character string giving the name of the CSV file which the data are to be read from.

...

Currently not used.

calendar

A aion::TimeScale object specifying the calendar (see aion::calendar()). It should be aion::CE() unless you change the default settings in 'OxCal'.

Value

An EventsMCMC object.

References

Bronk Ramsey, C. (2009). Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates. Radiocarbon, 51(1), 337-360. doi:10.1017/S0033822200033865 .

See also

Author

T. S. Dye, N. Frerebeau

Examples

if (requireNamespace("ArchaeoData", quietly = TRUE)) {
  ## Construct the path to the data
  path <- file.path("oxcal", "ksarakil")
  path_output <- system.file(path, "MCMC_Sample.csv", package = "ArchaeoData")

  ## Import OxCal Output
  (oxcal <- read_oxcal(path_output))
}
#> <EventsMCMC>
#> - Number of events: 26
#> - Number of MCMC samples: 1000