Software

Familybias (R-package)

As described in: Bickel, B. 2011. Distributional biases in language families. Ms. University of Leipzig, revised version.

Installation Instructions:

1. Download the file familybias.tar.gz.
2. Open a terminal and change to the directory that you have downloaded the file to.
3. Type R CMD install familybias.tar.gz at the command line.
4. Start R and type library(familybias) to load the package.
5. Type ?familybias for more information on how to use the package.

Genealogical sample algorithm

As described in: Bickel, Balthasar, 2008. A refined sampling procedure for genealogical control. Language Typology and Universals 61, 221 - 33.

R script for reading Toolbox files into R

Shell scripts transforming CHAT files into Toolbox files

Two bash scripts in one zip archive; one script for CHAT files with headers; one for CHAT files without headers.

Convenience functions for searching corpora in R

See explanations for use with CPDP corpora.

Convenience functions for counting words in toolbox corpora from within R

R script for extracting, tabulating and exporting IMDI metadata

Many other convenience functions for working with CPDP corpora