This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-date package of date, a collection
of functions for handlind dates in GNU R.  Date was written by Terry
Therneau, and ported to R by Thomas Lumley, Kjetil Halvorsen and Kurt
Hornik.

This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>.
The sources were downloaded from 
	http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/

The package was renamed from its upstream name 'date' to 'r-cran-date'
to highlight the fact that is it a CRAN package for R.

Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Terry Therneau 
Portions Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Thomas Lumley, Kjetil Halvorsen, Kurt Hornik

License: GPL-2

On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL-2 license is included in the
file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below:

   Package: date
   Version: 1.2-18
   Author: Terry Therneau <therneau@mayo.edu>.  R port by Thomas Lumley
    <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>, Kjetil Halvorsen <khal@alumni.uv.es>,
    and Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@R-project.org>.
   Maintainer: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@R-project.org>
   Title: Functions for handling dates
   Description: Functions for handling dates.
   License: GPL
   Packaged: Wed Jun  9 08:59:15 2004; hornik