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