This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-lme4 package of lme4, a GNU R package of classes and methods for fitting and examining linear mixed effects models (also called multilevel models, panel data models, and several other names) and generalized linear mixed models. This package was created by Douglas Bates . It is now being maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'lme4' to 'r-cran-lme4' to highlight the fact that is it a CRAN package for R. Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Douglas Bates and Deepayan Sarkar 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: lme4 Version: 0.6-10 Date: 2004-12-13 Title: Linear mixed-effects models using S4 classes Author: Douglas Bates and Deepayan Sarkar Maintainer: Douglas Bates Description: Fit linear and generalized linear mixed-effects models. Depends: methods, R(>= 2.0.0), Matrix(>= 0.8-18), latticeExtra Imports: graphics, stats SaveImage: no LazyLoad: yes LazyData: yes License: GPL version 2 or later Packaged: Mon Dec 13 09:29:35 2004; bates