R is a software package for statistics, freely available for any computer platform. See: The R Project for Statistical Computing.

iL04 is a library for R, that lets you exchange data between RuG/L04 and R.

The most important functions in iL04 are:

    read.dif
    write.dif
    read.vec
    write.vec

The first two are for importing and exporting of difference tables , such as generated by, among others, leven and giw. The last two are for importing and exporting of vector files, such as generated by the mds program.

To get a complete listing of function in iL04, run the following command in R:

    library(help="iL04")

You get a short demonstration of some of the functions in iL04 with:

    library("iL04")
    demo("iL04")