The zipfR package for lexical statistics: A tutorial introduction

This document provides a tutorial introduction to the zipfR package (Evert and Baroni, 2007) for Large-Number-of-Rare-Events (LNRE) modeling of lexical distributions (Baayen, 2001). We assume that R is installed on your computer and that you have basic familiarity with it. If this is not the case, please start by visiting the R page at http://www.r-project.org/. The page provides links to download sites, documentation and introductory material, as well as a wide selection of textbooks on R programming.