xlum: Read, Write, and Convert XLUM Data

Support for the XLUM file format (Kreutzer et al. (2023) <doi:10.5194/gchron-5-271-2023>) for exchange and long-term preservation of luminescence data. The package facilitates the import and export of XLUM files and the conversion from other ASCII and binary formats commonly used to store luminescence (dating) data.

Version: 0.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.5)
Imports: base64enc (≥ 0.1), Luminescence (≥ 1.3.1), utils, xml2 (≥ 1.6.0)
Suggests: spelling (≥ 2.3.2), testthat (≥ 3.3.2)
Published: 2026-11-03
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.xlum (may not be active yet)
Author: Sebastian Kreutzer ORCID iD [aut, cre], Marco Colombo ORCID iD [aut], Christoph Burow ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Sebastian Kreutzer <maintainer_luminescence at r-luminescence.org>
BugReports: https://github.com/R-Lum/xlum/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://r-lum.github.io/xlum/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: xlum results

Documentation:

Reference manual: xlum.html , xlum.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: xlum_0.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): xlum_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): xlum_0.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): xlum_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): xlum_0.2.0.tgz

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