[PLUG] Program written in R

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:23:03 -0800
"Rogan Creswick" <creswick at gmail.com> dijo:

> > I have downloaded the program, which is a .bin file. Supposedly R
> > programs can be run on any platform. Whether that is true for Hardy
> > x86_64 is beyond my ken. A ".bin" file smells a lot of Windows. But
> > what do I know? Until today I had never heard of the R programming
> > language.
> 
> I don't see any bin files on that site.  Have you tried the instructions here:
> 
> http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~paolillo/projects/varbrul/rvarb/rvarb.html
>  (note the slight differences in the url)
> 
> I think this is the file you need to download:
> 
> http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~paolillo/projects/varbrul/rvarb/RVarb_0.2.r

Oh, that is what I already downloaded. The download popup in Firefox
said it is a bin file, but in fact, it does not have the .bin
extension. My bad.

> You'll also need to install R (it should be in synaptic).

Done. 

Now all I need is to figure out is how R-Varb works. If there are any
Vulcans in here who know statistics, can we do a quick mind-meld?