SDAR: A New Toolkit for Stratigraphic Data Analysis in R

SDAR is an analytical package designed for both plotting and facilitate the analysis of Stratigraphic Data. SDAR uses simple stratigraphic data and takes advantage of the flexible plotting tools available in R to produce detailed stratigraphic columns (SCs). SDAR is used to generate accurate and complete SC plot including multiple features (e.g., lithology, grain size, sedimentary structures, bioturbation, fossil content, color). The development of this package was supported by Carlos Jaramillo, Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.