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All data and scripts required to reproduce the analysis of the paper are located within this repository.

For users of the base R console, please define the work directory filepath where you stored the folder "CentralAfricaHumanActivity" by setting setwd(). If you use RStudio, you can open the .Rproj file instead.

Folder and File Structure

• the /input folder contains all data and data produced by the Figure 2 overall spd.R script
• the /output folder contains all outputs generated by the scripts
• the /script folter contains all R-code produced in the context of this research
  • It is suggested to run Figure 2 overall spd.R before running other scripts as this script generated the rcarbon output stored within the /input folder. The results of this scripts are required in all scripts except Figure 1 map.R.
  • the pkg.R file serves as header file loading all necessary packages that are required to run the scripts. Please make sure, that you have installed and updated all requires packages.
  • the fct.R file contains custom build functions created in the course of this research.

All data are stored within the /input folder