The following are the instructions from Stefan Th. Gries and Harald Baayen, concerning how to set things up to be able to use R at the pre-conference workshop. Note that you will want to have a laptop with you to participate fully in the workshop. If you have questions about any of the following instructions,
please contact Stefan Th. Gries directly.
 

My understanding is you will bring your laptop computers and, in this email, I would like to give you some information that should help you get set up for the workshop.

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1. Installation of R (base)
a) Download R from the websites listed below (depending on your operating system)
- Windows users: <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-2.6.2-win32.exe>
- Mac OSX users: <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/>
- Linux users choose their distribution at:
<http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/>

b) Installation: well, whatever your OS requires (if prompted, choose complete installation into the suggested standard directory)

c) Installation of packages
- start R;
- enter this (without the single quotes): 'chooseCRANmirror()' and choose "Austria" (and click "OK" if necessary);
- enter this (without double quotes): 'install.packages("languageR")';
- enter this (without double quotes): 'install.packages("gsubfn")'.

Depending on your setup R will probably download more packages than these two, but that's fine, these are packages these two depend on.

2. Data files for my corpus linguistics part
a) Create a folder on your computer for the workshop files. It should be one with a short path so maybe (on Windows machines) <C:/R_AACL/>.
b) Go to the workshop website at
<http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/teaching/provo/index.html>.
c) Download the seven files from the section 'Data files to download'
into the directory created/specified in 2b) onto your computer.
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This should make it easer for me to start the workshop without much delay; while I included a package that I suspected Harald would want to use, he may send you some other instructions or links with regard to his forthcoming textbook, too.

If there are any problems with the above, please do let me know. You may also wish to check out the website of my forthcoming book from which some of the materials I will use have been taken:
<http://groups.google.com/group/corpling-with-r/web/quantitative-corpus-linguistics-with-r>.
The section "Case Studies: assignments" contains some more advanced examples of what R is able to offer.