This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-rmpi package of Rmpi, an interface
package for GNU R providing access to the MPI (Message-Passing
Interface) API with interactive R slave functionalities. Rmpi was
written by Hao Yu.
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 'Rmpi' to 'r-cran-rmpi'
to highlight the fact that is it a CRAN package for R.
Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008 Hao Yu
License: GPL-2
On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license (v2) is included in the file
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below:
Package: Rmpi
Version: 0.4-8
Date: 2004-04-21
Title: Interface (Wrapper) to MPI (Message-Passing Interface)
Author: Hao Yu
Maintainer: Hao Yu
Depends: R (>= 1.8.1)
Description: Rmpi provides an interface (wrapper) to MPI APIs. It also
provides interactive R slave environment in which
distributed statistical computing can be carried out.
License: GPL version 2 or newer
URL: http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi
Packaged: Thu Apr 22 10:03:22 2004; hyu