The German for NA

Austin is a package for scaling (assigning positions to) texts on the basis of word counts, in the style of Wordfish or Wordscores. Read the vignette to see some examples.

This is a bug fix source package release that fixes the Germany manifesto data sets.

Installation: Windows

From the links below download austin_0.2.2.zip without letting it get unpacked. You may need to right-click and choose 'save-as' to keep it in one piece.

From an R prompt, type

loc <- file.choose()

to locate the file you downloaded. Then type

install.packages(loc)

Installation: Mac OSX

From the links below download austin_0.2.2.tgz without letting it get unpacked. You may need to right-click and choose 'save-as' to keep it in one piece.

From an R prompt, type

loc <- file.choose()

to locate the file you downloaded. Then type

install.packages(loc)

If for some reason this doesn't work for you, try the instructions in the next section

Installation: Everybody else

From the links below download austin_0.2.2.tar.gz without letting it get unpacked. You may need to right-click and choose 'save-as' to keep it in one piece.

From an R prompt, type

loc <- file.choose() 

to locate the file you downloaded. Then type

install.packages(loc, type="source")

Immigrant

This is an source package imported from Austin v0.2 at r-forge.