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
