Source: r-base Section: math Priority: optional Maintainer: Douglas Bates Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0 Package: r-base Architecture: any Depends: perl5, unzip, ${shlibs:Depends} Suggests: g77, libpaperg Description: `GNU S' - A language and environment for statistical computing. R is described by its authors as "not unlike" S, which is a language developed at Bell Laboratories for statistical computing and graphics. It provides support for a variety of statistical and graphical analyses. R is a true computer language which contains a number of control-flow constructions for iteration and alternation. It allows users to add additional functionality by defining new functions. Fortran and C code can be linked and called at run time. . S is the statistician's Matlab and R is to S what Octave is to Matlab.