This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-quadprog package of quadprog, a set of functions for solving quadratic programming problem in GNU R. Quadprog was initially written for S by Berwin Turlach, and ported to R by Andreas Weingessel. 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 'quadprog' to 'r-cran-quadprog' to highlight the fact that is it a CRAN package for R. Copyright (C) 1997-2008 Berwin Turlach and Andreas Weingessel 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: quadprog Version: 1.4-7 Date: 2004-01-31 Title: Functions to solve Quadratic Programming Problems. Author: S original by Berwin A. Turlach R port by Andreas Weingessel Maintainer: Andreas Weingessel Description: This package contains routines and documentation for solving quadratic programming problems. License: GPL version 2 or later Packaged: Sat Jan 31 13:32:53 2004; hornik