This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-matrix package of Matrix, a package for GNU R providing dense and sparse matrix utilities for R. This package was created by Douglas Bates who is also one of the principal authors. It is now maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'Matrix' to 'r-cran-matrix' to highlight the fact that is it a CRAN package for R. Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Douglas Bates Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Martin Maechler Portions Copyright (C) 1998-2007 Timothy A. Davis Portions Copyright (C) 2007 Timothy A. Davis, Patrick R. Amestoy, and Iain S. Duff Portions Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Timothy A. Davis and William W. Hager License: GPL-2+ Portions License: LGPL-2.1 On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license (v2) and LGPL license (v2.1) are included in the files /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below [ and reindented to 80 columns ]: Package: Matrix Version: 0.999375-5 Date: 2008-03-07 Title: A Matrix package for R Author: Douglas Bates and Martin Maechler Maintainer: Doug and Martin Description: Classes and methods for dense and sparse matrices and operations on them using Lapack, CSparse and CHOLMOD Depends: R (>= 2.5.1), stats, methods, utils, lattice Imports: graphics, lattice, grid, stats Enhances: graph, SparseM SystemRequirements: GNU make LazyLoad: yes LazyData: no LazyDataNote: no longer available, since we use data/*.R *and* our classes License: GPL (>= 2) LicenseDetails: The Matrix package includes libraries CHOLMOD, AMD, COLAMD and CSparse from the University of Florida sparse matrix library maintained by Tim Davis. All sections of that code are covered by the GPL or LGPL licenses. See the directory doc/UFsparse for details. Packaged: Fri Mar 7 15:10:34 2008; maechler