I've recently started getting into computational archaeology and found the entire ecosystem is built around R, meaning I am now starting to learn about it. Anyone have a suggestion of the standard books/courses one should start with?
I found it pretty interesting that the alternative to R is Haskell for general CLI tools! Seeing some open issues in a popular tool for dealing with ancient DNA (aDNA) about making invalid states impossible within the type system made me genuinely laugh out loud in amazement. I didn't expect that level of technical knowledge within the world of archaeology.
We used the books Hadley Wickham has published for R courses in my stats program [1].
I supplemented the theory parts of my other courses with some of these [2] R books about using the methods instead of deriving and proving properties about them.
Any chance of sharing which tool(s)? I know some people who're involved in making the haskell ecosystem a better place for less mainstream users and I'm pretty sure they'd want to know more about this.
(and if it turns out they already know, -I- don't, and that sounds pretty cool and fun to read up on :)
Much appreciated, passed on in the hopes it's useful, and when it's not 0030 and I'm awake enough to actually understand any of it I'll be having a read through myself.
I’m a total noob but offered my development skills in trade of archaeological domain knowledge, so just getting familiar with the code base myself atm :) if you/your friends wanted any sort of intro to the team I could arrange that as I’m in a slack channel with some of them!
I found it pretty interesting that the alternative to R is Haskell for general CLI tools! Seeing some open issues in a popular tool for dealing with ancient DNA (aDNA) about making invalid states impossible within the type system made me genuinely laugh out loud in amazement. I didn't expect that level of technical knowledge within the world of archaeology.