kinesis
'shiny' Applications for the 'tesselle' Packages
A collection of 'shiny' applications for the 'tesselle' packages < https://www.tesselle.org/>. This package provides applications for archaeological data analysis and visualization. These mainly, but not exclusively, include applications for chronological modelling (e.g. matrix seriation, aoristic analysis) and count data analysis (e.g. diversity measures, compositional data analysis).
kinesis 
Overview
A collection of shiny applications that provides graphical user interfaces for the tesselle packages.
This package is currently experimental. This means that it is functional, but interfaces and functionalities may change over time, testing and documentation may be lacking.
To cite kinesis in publications use:
Frerebeau N (2024). “The tesselle Project: a Collection of R Packages for Research and Teaching in Archaeology.” Advances in Archaeological Practice, 12(4), 424-430. doi:10.1017/aap.2024.10 https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2024.10.
Frerebeau N (2026). kinesis: ‘shiny’ Applications for the ‘tesselle’ Packages. Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Pessac, France. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14645671 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14645671. R package version 0.5.0, https://packages.tesselle.org/kinesis/.
This package is a part of the tesselle project https://www.tesselle.org.
Remote use
The applications are deployed online.
Local use
Installation
You can install the released version of kinesis from CRAN with:
install.packages("kinesis")
And the development version from Codeberg with:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_git("https://codeberg.org/tesselle/kinesis")
Usage
## Load the package
library(kinesis)
## Run the app for matrix seriation
run_app("seriation")
| Keyword | Application name |
|---|---|
aoristic |
Aoristic Analysis |
ca |
Correspondence Analysis |
pca |
Principal Components Analysis |
diversity |
Diversity Measures |
mcd |
Mean Ceramic Date |
radiocarbon |
Radiocarbon Calibration |
scatter |
Scatter Plot |
seriation |
Matrix Seriation |
source |
Compositional Data Analysis |
ternary |
Ternary Plot |
Asynchronous backend
## Run app using 3 local daemons
# install.packages("mirai")
obj <- run_app("seriation")
with(mirai::daemons(3), shiny::runApp(obj))
Translation
This package provides translations of the user interface. The preferred
language is by default taken from the locale. This can be overridden by
setting of the environment variable LANGUAGE (you only need to do this
once per session):
Sys.setenv(LANGUAGE = "<language code>")
Languages currently available are English (en) and French (fr).
Contributing
Please note that the kinesis project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.