This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-rmpi package of Rmpi, an interface package for GNU R providing access to the MPI (Message-Passing Interface) API with interactive R slave functionalities. Rmpi was written by Hao Yu. 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 'Rmpi' to 'r-cran-rmpi' to highlight the fact that is it a CRAN package for R. Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008 Hao Yu 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: Rmpi Version: 0.4-8 Date: 2004-04-21 Title: Interface (Wrapper) to MPI (Message-Passing Interface) Author: Hao Yu Maintainer: Hao Yu Depends: R (>= 1.8.1) Description: Rmpi provides an interface (wrapper) to MPI APIs. It also provides interactive R slave environment in which distributed statistical computing can be carried out. License: GPL version 2 or newer URL: http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi Packaged: Thu Apr 22 10:03:22 2004; hyu