This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-foptions package of fExoticOptions, a set of functions for pricing and hedging of exotic option financial options, and part of Rmetrics, a collection of packages for financial engineering and computational finance. Both fExoticOptions and Rmetrics were written and compiled primarily by Diethelm Wuertz. 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 'fExoticOptions' to 'r-cran-fexoticoptions' 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: fExoticOptions Version: 260.72 Date: 1997 - 2007 Title: Rmetrics - Exotic Option Valuation Author: Diethelm Wuertz and many others, see the SOURCE file Depends: R (>= 2.4.0), fOptions Maintainer: Diethelm Wuertz and Rmetrics Core Team Description: Environment for teaching "Financial Engineering and Computational Finance" NOTE: SEVERAL PARTS ARE STILL PRELIMINARY AND MAY BE CHANGED IN THE FUTURE. THIS TYPICALLY INCLUDES FUNCTION AND ARGUMENT NAMES, AS WELL AS DEFAULTS FOR ARGUMENTS AND RETURN VALUES. LazyLoad: yes LazyData: yes License: GPL Version 2 or later URL: http://www.rmetrics.org Packaged: Mon Oct 8 14:08:34 2007; myself and the following segment was extracted from the header of src/zzz.R: # Copyrights (C) # for this R-port: # 1999 - 2004, Diethelm Wuertz, GPL # Diethelm Wuertz # info@rmetrics.org # www.rmetrics.org # for the code accessed (or partly included) from other R-ports: # see R's copyright and license files # for the code accessed (or partly included) from contributed R-ports # and other sources # see Rmetrics's copyright file