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+# ChainLadder 
+
+ChainLadder is an R package providing methods which are typically used in insurance claims reserving, including:
+
+- Mack-, Munich- and Bootstrap-chain-ladder models
+- General multivariate chain ladder models 
+- Loss development factor fitting and Cape Cod models 
+- Generalized linear models 
+- Utility functions to:
+  - convert quickly tables into triangles
+  - triangles into tables 
+  - cumulative into incremental 
+  - incremental into cumulative triangles
+
+## Installation
+
+You can install the stable version from
+[CRAN](http://cran.r-project.org/package=ChainLadder):
+
+```s
+install.packages('ChainLadder')
+```
+
+To install the current development version from github you need the [devtools package](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/devtools/index.html) and the other packages on which ChainLadder depends:
+
+```s
+install.packages(c("systemfit", "actuar", "Hmisc", "statmod", "tweedie", "cplm"))
+```
+
+To install ChainLadder run:
+<!--
+Fix my broken path to pdflatex on R
+```s
+Sys.setenv(PATH=paste(Sys.getenv("PATH"),"/usr/texbin",sep=":"))
+```
+-->
+```s
+library(devtools)
+install_github("mages/ChainLadder")
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+```s
+library(ChainLadder)
+?ChainLadder
+demo(ChainLadder)
+```
+
+See the ChainLadder package [vignettes](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ChainLadder/) for more details. 
+
+## Citation
+
+To cite package 'ChainLadder' in publications use:
+
+  Markus Gesmann, Daniel Murphy and Wayne Zhang (2013). ChainLadder:
+  Statistical methods for the calculation of outstanding claims reserves
+  in general insurance. R package version 0.1.7.
+
+## License
+
+This package is free and open source software, licensed under [GPL](https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).
+
+<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en_GB"><img alt="Creative Commons Licence" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/80x15.png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">ChainLadder documentation</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="https://github.com/mages/ChainLadder" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Markus Gesmann, Dan Murphy and Wayne Zhang</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en_GB">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.