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+# Quantitative Text Kit (`qtkit`)
+
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+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.
+
+## Getting started
+
+You can install the released version of qtalrkit from
+[CRAN](https://CRAN.R-project.org) with:
+
+``` r
+install.packages("qtkit")
+```
+
+The development version of `qtkit` is on [GitHub](https://github.com/)
+and can be installed with:
+
+``` r
+install.packages("remotes")
+remotes::install_github("qtalr/qtkit")
+```
+
+Then load the package with:
+
+``` r
+library(qtkit)
+```
+
+Please consult the [package
+documentation](https://qtalr.github.io/qtkit/reference) for more
+information.