This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-nws package of nws which provides NetWorkSpace (NWS) support for GNU R. nws was written by REvolution Computing with support and contributions from Pfizer, Inc. This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from CRAN at http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'nws' to 'r-cran-nws' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 2005 - 2008 REvolution Computing, Inc. License: GPL (v2 or later) On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL licenses (versions 2 and 3) are included in the files /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 and /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION [indented two spaces] file is included below: Package: nws Title: R functions for NetWorkSpaces and Sleigh Version: 1.6.3 Author: REvolution Computing with support and contributions from Pfizer, Inc. Description: Provides coordination and parallel execution facilities, as well as limited cross-language data exchange, using the netWorkSpaces server developed by REvolution Computing Maintainer: REvolution Computing License: GPL Version 2 or later. Depends: R (>= 2.1), methods LazyLoad: yes URL: http://nws-r.sourceforge.net/ Packaged: Tue Mar 18 11:45:06 2008; weston