This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-foreign package of foreign, a
collection of functions to read / write data stored by other
statistical systems. Foreign was written by T. Lumley, D. Bates,
and S. DebRoy.
This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel .
The sources were downloaded from
http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/
and are also included in the (large) source tar archive of R itself at
http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/
The package was renamed from its upstream name 'foreign' to 'r-cran-foreign'
to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R.
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 R Core (Thomas Lumley, Douglas Bates, Saikat DebRoy,
Brian Ripley, Kurt Hornik, Duncan Murdoch,
Martin Maechler, Peter Dalgaard, and others)
and Roger Bivand
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 [with lines broken to 80 cols]
file is included below:
Package: foreign
Priority: recommended
Version: 0.6-6
Date: 2003-12-20
Title: Read data stored by Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, ...
Depends: R (>= 1.7.0)
Maintainer: R-core
Author: Thomas Lumley ,
Saikat DebRoy ,
Douglas M. Bates and
Duncan Murdoch
Description: Functions for reading and writing data stored by statistical
packages such as Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, ...
License: GPL version 2 or later
Packaged: Sat Dec 20 09:10:24 2003; ripley