Date: 12 Feb 2003 20:48:16 -0500
From: "Jason Eisner" <jason@cs.jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: zipf

> please drop me the following to download
> zipf: Processes to generate Zipf-like distributions
> thank you

Try working through the following in R.  
  http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason/tmp/33691-zipf.R

You will also need this file, which is loaded by the previous file:
  http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason/tmp/30482-utils.R

I hope it is of some use to you.  Note that some lines may take a few
minutes to execute.

This stuff was just to support a tangential comment in my thesis.  (I
noted that the process I described could generate Zipf distributions,
as well as other distributions that seemed even closer to the
empirical distribution of word frequencies in text.)

-jme