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Tools

Some of the software tools I have developed for my work and which might prove useful for others as well...

Rgedit Rgedit icon is a plug-in for gedit (the standard Gnome editor) which transforms it into a light-weight IDE for the statistical environment R. It is aimed at advanced/professional users of R on Linux. It is released under GPLv3 and is written in Python and PyGTK; for more details please see its page on sourceforge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rgedit/

GenLangCorrV4: is the software platform I developed to run simulations of various types of genetically biased language change and evolution, reported in

Dediu, D. (2008). The role of genetic biases in shaping the correlations between languages and genes. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 254(2), 400-407. and

Dediu, D. (2009). Genetic biasing through cultural transmission: Do simple Bayesian models of language evolution generalize? Journal of Theoretical Biology, 259, 552-561.

For details please see these two papers as well as the ReadMe.txt included with the source code here. The program is released under GPLv3, is written in C++ and runs on *nix.

Last checked 2009-09-17 by Dan Dediu

Dan Dediu

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

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