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This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-recommended package provided several

recommended packages for the GNU R language and environment for statisticial

computing.  The r-recommended package comprises the R packages KernSmooth,

VR, boot, cluster, foreign, mgcv, nlme, rpart and survival; they were written

(or ported) by the R core team.

This package was intially created by Doug Bates, but is now maintained by 

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>. The sources where downloaded from the

US mirror of the Comprehensive R Archive Network:

	http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib

They are also available from every other CRAN mirror.  Visit

	http://cran.r-project.org

to find a CRAN site near you.

The r-recommended packages are copyright by their authors and released either

under the GNU General Public License or under (what was once common in the

Sciences) licenses such as "Unlimited use and distribution" (see below). The

exact terms are described in the per-package DESCRIPTION files which are

collated below for reference.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of these licenses can be found

in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL and /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic.

Package: KernSmooth

Priority: recommended

Version: 2.22-6

Date: 2001-June-08

Title: Functions for kernel smoothing for Wand & Jones (1995)

Author: S original by Matt Wand.

	R port by  Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>.

Maintainer: Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

Description: functions for kernel smoothing (and density estimation)

  corresponding to the book: 

  Wand, M.P. and Jones, M.C. (1995) "Kernel Smoothing".

License: Unlimited use and distribution (see LICENCE).

URL: http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~mwand

Bundle: VR

Priority: recommended

Contains: MASS class nnet spatial

Version: 6.2-9 

Date: 2001/09/23

Depends: R (>= 1.3.0)

Author: S original by Venables & Ripley.

  R port by Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>, following earlier

  work by Kurt Hornik and Albrecht Gebhardt.

Maintainer: Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

BundleDescription: Various functions from the libraries of Venables and

  Ripley, `Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS' (3rd edition).

License: GPL (version 2 or later)

URL: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS3/

Package: boot

Priority: recommended

Version: 1.2-5

Date: 2001-Aug-16

Author: S original <http://dmawww.epfl.ch/davison.mosaic/BMA/library.html>

  by Angelo Canty.  R port by  Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>.

Maintainer: Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

Description: functions and datasets for bootstrapping from the

  book "Bootstrap Methods and Their Applications" by A.C. Davison and 

  D.V. Hinkley (1997, CUP).

Title: Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty)

Depends: R (>= 1.3.0), survival

License: Unlimited distribution.

Package: cluster

Version: 1.3-4

Priority: recommended

Author: S original by Peter Rousseeuw <rousse@uia.ua.ac.be>, Anja Struyf

	<Anja.Struyf@uia.ua.ac.be> and Mia Hubert <Mia.Hubert@uia.ua.ac.be>.

  R port by Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> and Martin Maechler.

Maintainer: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>

Title: Functions for clustering (by Rousseeuw et al.)

Description: Functions for cluster analysis, originally from

  Peter Rousseeuw, Anja Struyf and Mia Hubert.

Depends:

License: GPL version 2 or later

Package: foreign

Priority: recommended

Version: 0.4-7

Date: 2001-07-17

Title: Read data stored by Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, ...

Maintainer: Saikat DebRoy <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

Author: Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>,

        Saikat DebRoy <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>,

        Douglas M. Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> and

	Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>

Description: Functions for reading and writing data stored by statistical

         packages such as Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, ...

License: GPL version 2 or later

Package: mgcv

Version: 0.5-3

Author: Simon Wood <snw@st-and.ac.uk>

Maintainer: Simon Wood <snw@st-and.ac.uk>

Title: Multiple smoothing parameter estimation and GAMs by GCV

Description: Routines for GAMs and other generalized ridge regression problems 

             with multiple smoothing parameter selection by GCV or UBRE.

             Includes an implementation of gam().

Priority: recommended

License: GPL version 2 or later

Package: nlme

Version: 3.1-19

Date: 2001/10/31

Priority: recommended

Title: Linear and nonlinear mixed effects models

Author: Jose Pinheiro <jcp@research.bell-labs.com>,

        Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>,

        Saikat DebRoy <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>, and

        Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan@stat.wisc.edu> 

Maintainer: Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>

Description: Fit and compare Gaussian linear and nonlinear mixed-effects models.

Depends: nls, R(>= 1.3.0)

License: GPL version 2 or later

Package: rpart

Priority: recommended

Version: 3.1-2

Date: July 2001 version of rpart

Author: Terry M Therneau and Beth Atkinson <atkinson@mayo.edu>.

        R port by Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>.

Maintainer: Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

Description: Recursive partitioning and regression trees

Title: Recursive partitioning

Depends: R (>= 1.3.0), survival

License: use under GPL2, or see file LICENCE

URL: Svr4 original at http://www.mayo.edu/hsr/Sfunc.html

Title: Survival analysis, including penalised likelihood.

Maintainer: Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

Priority: recommended

Package: survival

Version: 2.6

Author: S original by Terry Therneau, ported by Thomas Lumley

Description: survival analysis: descriptive statistics, two-sample

  tests, parametric accelerated failure models, Cox model. Delayed entry

  (truncation) allowed for all models; interval censoring for parametric

  models.

License: GPL2