This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-fbasics package of fBasics, a set of functions for basic statistics, date and time management, and part of Rmetrics, a collection of packages for financial engineering and computational finance. Both fBasics and Rmetrics were written and compiled primarily by Diethelm Wuertz, with code by others (see below for fBasics). This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://www.rmetrics.org and are also available from http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ and all CRAN mirrors as e.g. http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'fBasics' to 'r-cran-fbasics' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Diethelm Wuertz Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Rmetrics Foundation License: GPL On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: fBasics Version: 190.10056 Date: 1996 - 2004 Title: Financial Software Collection - fBasics Author: Diethelm Wuertz and many others, see the SOURCE file Depends: R (>= 1.9.0), methods Maintainer: Diethelm Wuertz Description: fBasics Library from Rmetrics - Rmetrics is an Environment and Software Collection for teaching "Financial Engineering and Computational Finance" License: GPL Version 2 or later URL: http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/econophysics/R/1.9 Packaged: Tue Jun 15 06:17:06 2004; myself and the following segment was extracted from the header of src/zzz.R: # Copyrights (C) # for this R-port: # Diethelm Wuertz # for the code accessed (or partly included) from other R-ports: # R: see R's copyright and license file # date: Terry Therneau # R port by Th. Lumley K. Halvorsen # , and Kurt Hornik # ts: Collected by Brian Ripley. See SOURCES # tseries: Compiled by Adrian Trapletti # for ical: # libical: Libical is an Open Source implementation of the IETF's # iCalendar Calendaring and Scheduling protocols. (RFC 2445, 2446, # and 2447). It parses iCal components and provides a C API for # manipulating the component properties, parameters, and subcomponents. # Olsen's VTIMEZONE: These data files are released under the GNU # General Public License, in keeping with the license options of # libical. # for the holiday database: # holiday information collected from the internet and governmental # sources obtained from a few dozens of websites