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 ```
 
-# qtkit
+# Quantitative Text Kit (`qtkit`)
 
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-The goal of qtkit is to ...
+The goal of `qtkit` is to provide a support package for the textbook ["An Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics: Reproducible Research using R"](https://qtalr.github.io/book). It contains functions for collecting and manipulating data and datasets, documentation, and other assorted tasks associated with quantative text analysis in R.
 
-## Installation
+## Getting started
 
-You can install the development version of qtkit like so:
+You can install the released version of qtalrkit from [CRAN](https://CRAN.R-project.org) with:
 
-``` r
-# FILL THIS IN! HOW CAN PEOPLE INSTALL YOUR DEV PACKAGE?
+```r
+install.packages("qtkit")
 ```
 
-## Example
+The development version of `qtkit` is on [GitHub](https://github.com/) and can be installed with:
 
-This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:
-
-```{r example}
-library(qtkit)
-## basic example code
+```r
+install.packages("remotes")
+remotes::install_github("qtalr/qtkit")
 ```
 
-What is special about using `README.Rmd` instead of just `README.md`? You can include R chunks like so:
-
-```{r cars}
-summary(cars)
-```
+Then load the package with:
 
-You'll still need to render `README.Rmd` regularly, to keep `README.md` up-to-date. `devtools::build_readme()` is handy for this.
-
-You can also embed plots, for example:
-
-```{r pressure, echo = FALSE}
-plot(pressure)
+```r
+library(qtkit)
 ```
 
-In that case, don't forget to commit and push the resulting figure files, so they display on GitHub and CRAN.
+Please consult the [package documentation](https://qtalr.github.io/qtkit/reference) for more information.