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+Copyright (c) 2019, IDS Mannheim
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
+   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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+---
+title: "KorAP web service client package for R"
+---
+
+## Description
+
+Simple R package to access the web service API of the [KorAP Corpus Analysis Platform](http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/) devloped at the [IDS Mannheim](http://ids-mannheim.de/)
+
+**! This packgage is in its early stages and not stable yet! Use it on your own risk!**
+
+## Getting started
+
+```
+library(devtools)
+install_git("https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/KorAP/RKorAPClient") 
+library(RKorAPClient)
+?KorAPQUery
+```
+
+## Development and License
+
+**Authors**:
+	     [Marc Kupietz](http://www1.ids-mannheim.de/zfo/personal/kupietz/)
+
+Copyright (c) 2019, [IDS Mannheim](http://ids-mannheim.de/), Germany
+
+This package is developed as part of the [KorAP](http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/)
+Corpus Analysis Platform at the Leibniz Institute for German Language
+([IDS](http://ids-mannheim.de/)).
+
+It is published under the
+[BSD-2 License](LICENSE).
+
+## Contributions
+
+Contributions are very welcome!
+
+Your contributions should ideally be committed via our [Gerrit server](https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/)
+to facilitate reviewing (see [Gerrit Code Review - A Quick Introduction](https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/Documentation/intro-quick.html)
+if you are not familiar with Gerrit). However, we are also happy to accept comments and pull requests
+via GitHub.
+
+Please note that unless you explicitly state otherwise any
+contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion into this software shall –
+as this software itself – be under the [BSD-2 License](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KorAP/Krill/master/LICENSE).
+
+## References
+
+Kupietz, Marc / Margaretha, Eliza / Diewald, Nils / Lüngen, Harald / Fankhauser, Peter (2019): [What’s New in EuReCo? Interoperability, Comparable Corpora, Licensing](https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-90261). In: Bański, Piotr/Barbaresi, Adrien/Biber, Hanno/Breiteneder, Evelyn/Clematide, Simon/Kupietz, Marc/Lüngen, Harald/Iliadi, Caroline (Hrsg.): [*Proceedings of the Internation Corpus Linguistics Conference 2019 Workshop "Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-7)"*](https://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/collection/id/21038), 22nd of July Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache,33-39.