This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-gdata package of gdata, a package with miscellaneous R data manipulation tools for GNU R. Gdata was written and compiled by Gregory Warnes, with code provided by Ben Bolker and Thomas Lumley, and is maintained by Nitin Jain. Gdata used to be part of the gregmisc package bundle. This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'gdata' to 'r-cran-gdata' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Gregory R. Warnes Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Gregor Gorjanc Portions Copyright (C) Ben Bolker, Thomas Lumley License: GPL-2 On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license (v2) is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: gdata Title: Various R programming tools for data manipulation Description: Various R programming tools for data manipulation Depends: R (>= 1.9.0) Suggests: gtools Version: 2.0.8 Date: 2005-08-31 Author: Gregory R. Warnes. Includes R source code and/or documentation contributed by Ben Bolker and Thomas Lumley Maintainer: Nitin Jain License: GPL (version 2 or later) Packaged: Tue Sep 6 11:31:26 2005; jainn02