Software Details
| Title: | The R Project New Release |
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| Submitter: | Stefan Th. Gries |
| Description: | This is to alert you to the R Project for Statistical Computing. R Version 2.4.1 has been released: http://www.r-project.org It has the following characteristics that make it the ideal tool for any corpus linguist: - It is a full-fledged programming language, i.e. it has hardly any restrictions on what corpus linguists can do with it and can therefore be used to generate all essential corpus-linguistic output formats (frequency lists, concordances, and collocation displays) as well as many other things no ready-made tool can provide; -As a programming language, it leaves the user in charge of retrieval settings rather than sometimes difficult-to-identify program settings - but at the same time R is much easier to handle than languages such as Perl or Python, which many find too daunting to learn; -R's capabilities for statistical and graphical analyses of corpus data excel over manual or spreadsheet-based evaluation; -It is open source software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and Linux/Unix; -There is a lively research community out there, constantly developing new stuff and providing the ideal basis for scientific exchange. R has also become increasingly popular in the general linguistics community, as is evidenced by a variety of textbooks that are about to be published both in corpus linguistics and statistics for linguistics. |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Computational Linguistics Phonetics Text/Corpus Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 18.919 |
| Date Posted: | 27-Mar-2007 |
