This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-rquantlib package of RQuantLib, an interface package for GNU R providing access the QuantLib finance library. RQuantLib was written by Dirk Eddelbuettel. This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rquantlib/ http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'RQuantLib' to 'r-cran-rquantlib' to highlight the fact that is it a CRAN package for R. Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008 Dirk Eddelbuettel License: GPL (>= 2) On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: RQuantLib Title: R interface to the QuantLib libraries Version: 0.1.4 Date: $Date: 2003/03/25 23:41:15 $ Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel Author: Dirk Eddelbuettel for the R interface, the QuantLib group for QuantLib (c.f. http://www.quantlib.org/html/group.html) Description: The RQuantLib packages provides access to (some) of the QuantLib functions from within R. It is currently limited to some Option pricing and analysis functions. The QuantLib project aims to provide a comprehensive software framework for quantitative finance. The goal is to provide a standard free/open source library to quantitative analysts and developers for modeling, trading, and risk management of financial assets. You need to have QuantLib installed in order to use RQuantLib. Depends: R (>= 1.5.0) License: GPL Version 2 or later for RQuantLib; QuantLib itself is released as Open Source as well URL: http://quantlib.org http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rquantlib.html