This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-nlme package of nlme, a collection of functions to fit and compare linear and non-linear mixed-effects models. Nlme was written by Jose Pinheiro, Douglas Bates, Saikat DebRoy and Deepayan Sarkar. 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 'nlme' to 'r-cran-nlme' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Jose Pinheiro, Douglas Bates, Saikat DebRoy, Deepayan Sarkar and the R Core team 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: nlme Version: 3.1-45 Date: 2003/08/29 Priority: recommended Title: Linear and nonlinear mixed effects models Author: Jose Pinheiro , Douglas Bates , Saikat DebRoy , and Deepayan Sarkar Maintainer: Douglas Bates Description: Fit and compare Gaussian linear and nonlinear mixed-effects models. Depends: nls, lattice, R(>= 1.7.0) License: GPL version 2 or later