For a more detailed answer try the American Statistician:

Title: The joy of copulas: Bivariate distributions with uniform marginals
(Com: 87V41 p248) 
Author(s): Genest, Christian;MacKay, Jock;
Keywords: [Teacher's Corner];Frechet bound;Kendall $\tau$;Singular
distribution function;Kendall tau
Year: 86 Volume: 40 Page(s): 280- 283 J

Any paper with a title like that just has to be worth reading.


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> > On 18 Nov 2003 at 11:26, Thomas Holm wrote:
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> > What is copulas?
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> After you rescale a bivariate distribution to have specified marginal
> distributions the copula is what's left.
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>       -thomas
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> > Kjetil Halvorsen
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> > > Hello
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> > > Anyone that now of any function in R that can calculate copulas?
> > > Or if anyone have any code avaible I would be more than 
> interested.
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> > > Thank you in advance
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> > > /Thomas
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