This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-doSNOW package of doSNOW, a package providing support for parallel execution of %dopar% functions using the snow package, which was written by REvolution Computing, Inc. This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from the CRAN network at http://cran.r-project.org The package was renamed from its upstream name 'doSNOW' to 'r-cran-dosnow' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 2008 - 2009 REvolution Computing, Inc. License: GPL-2 On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL (version 2.0) is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: doSNOW Type: Package Title: Foreach parallel adaptor for the snow package Version: 1.0.3 Author: REvolution Computing Maintainer: REvolution Computing Description: Provides a parallel backend for the %dopar% function using Luke Tierney's snow package. Depends: R (>= 2.5.0), foreach(>= 1.2.0), iterators(>= 1.0.0), snow(>= 0.3.0), utils License: GPL-2 Packaged: 2009-08-20 21:25:15 UTC; weston Repository: CRAN Date/Publication: 2009-08-21 05:15:15