CRAN release ‘Luminescence’ v1.2.0

by RLum.Network (March 12, 2026)

We are very excited to announce the release of 'Luminescence' version 1.2.0. This release includes a number of consistency improvements and some breaking changes.

The highlights below do not give justice to the amount of work that happend for this release, but there’s a more in-depth presentation in the post for the 1.2.0 release on the REPLAY website.

Highlights

  • The breaking changes relate to what the recordType slot contains: from now on, it will always include the detector name, even when not specifically indicated in the input file. So for BIN/BINX, Daybreak (not always) and PSL files this will be “(PMT)”; if not known it will be (“NA”). XSYG files already stored this information, so from that point of view there is no change. However, the technical curves in XSYG files will now have an “_” at the start of their recordType so that it’s easier to discard them. More information are available in the post about breaking changes in v1.2.0.

  • Two new functions have been added: normalise_RLum() to normalise RLum.Data.Curve, RLum.Data.Spectrum, RLum.Data.Image and RLum.Analysis objects; and read_BINXLOG2R() to recover information for BIN/BINX files from the log files generated by Risø readers.

  • Integrals can now be specified more consistently using signal_integral and background_integral as argument names. It’s also possible to specify them in terms of time/temperature by setting integral_input = "measurement".

  • analyse_SAR.CWOSL() has a new dose_rate_source argument so that plots can correctly display values in Gy, as well as a new signal-to-noise rejection criterion. Besides, some rejection criteria can now take into account the uncertainties in the computation so to avoid potentially spurious rejections: this functionality is disabled by default, but can be activated by setting rejection.criteria = list(consider_uncertainties = TRUE).

To see all the other gory details on what has changed, please see the 1.2.0 release page on GitHub.

Have a fresh and enjoyable spring with Luminescence!

Your R Luminescence Team