This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-rsprng package of rsprng, a package that provides an interface to the SPRNG (scalable parallel random number generator) library from GNU R. Rsprng was written by Na (Michael) Li. 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 'rsprng' to 'r-cran-rsprng' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 2002 - 2008 Na (Michael) Li License: GPL-2 or newer On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: rsprng Version: 0.3-1 Date: $Date: 2004/02/14 04:51:52 $ Title: R interface to SPRNG (Scalable Parallel Random Number Generators) Author: Na (Michael) Li Maintainer: Na (Michael) Li Depends: R (>= 1.2.0) Description: Provides interface to SPRNG APIs, and examples and documentation for its use. License: GPL version 2 or newer URL: http://www.r-project.org/, http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~nali/SoftwareListing.html