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