This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-gtools package of gtools, a package with miscellaneous R programming functions for GNU R. Gtools was written and compiled by Gregory Warnes, with code provided by Ben Bolker and Thomas Lumley, and is maintained by Nitin Jain. Gtools used to be part of the gregmisc package bundle. 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 'gtools' to 'r-cran-gtools' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008 Gregory R. Warnes License: LGPL 2.1 On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the LGPL license is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: gtools Title: Various R programming tools Description: Various R programming tools Depends: R (>= 1.9.0) Version: 2.1.0 Date: 2005-08-31 Author: Gregory R. Warnes. Includes R source code and/or documentation contributed by Ben Bolker and Thomas Lumley Maintainer: Nitin Jain License: LGPL 2.1 Packaged: Fri Sep 2 19:00:56 2005; jainn02