This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-its package of its, a package for handling irregularly spaced timeseries in GNU R. Its was written by the Portfolio & Risk Advisory Group, Commerzbank Securities, was initially maintained upstream by Giles Heywood , and is currently maintained by Whit Armstrong . 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 'its' to 'r-cran-its' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 2003 - 2004 Commerzbank Securities Copyright (C) 2004 - 2008 Whit Armstrong License: GPL 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: its Version: 1.0.0 Date: 2004/02/13 Title: Irregular Time Series Author: Portfolio & Risk Advisory Group, Commerzbank Securities Maintainer: Giles Heywood Depends: R (>= 1.8.0), methods, Hmisc Description: The its package contains an S4 class for handling irregular time series License: GPL Version 2