This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-snow package of snow, a package
providing a 'Simple Network Of Workstations' for GNU R, employing
socket, pvm or mpi/lam communication layers. Snow was written by Luke
Tierney, Tony Rossini and Na 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 'snow' to 'r-cran-snow'
to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R.
Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008 Luke Tierney, Tony Rossini, Na Li and Hana Sevcikova
License: GPL
On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license is included in the file
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below:
Package: snow
Title: Simple Network of Workstations
Version: 0.1-2
Author: Luke Tierney, A. J. Rossini, Na Li
Description: Support for simple parallel computing in R.
Maintainer: Luke Tierney
License: GPL
Depends: R (>= 1.5)