This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-foreign package of foreign, a collection of functions to read / write data stored by other statistical systems. Foreign was written by T. Lumley, D. Bates, and S. DebRoy. This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ and are also included in the (large) source tar archive of R itself at http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'foreign' to 'r-cran-foreign' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 1999-2008 R Core (Thomas Lumley, Douglas Bates, Saikat DebRoy, Brian Ripley, Kurt Hornik, Duncan Murdoch, Martin Maechler, Peter Dalgaard, and others) and Roger Bivand 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 [with lines broken to 80 cols] file is included below: Package: foreign Priority: recommended Version: 0.6-6 Date: 2003-12-20 Title: Read data stored by Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, ... Depends: R (>= 1.7.0) Maintainer: R-core Author: Thomas Lumley , Saikat DebRoy , Douglas M. Bates and Duncan Murdoch Description: Functions for reading and writing data stored by statistical packages such as Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, ... License: GPL version 2 or later Packaged: Sat Dec 20 09:10:24 2003; ripley