This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-multicore package of multicore, a
package providing parallel programming for multi-core or multi-cpu
machines written by Simon Urbanek.

This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>.
The sources were downloaded from 
  	http://www.rforge.net/multicore	
and are also available at every mirror of CRAN:
	http://cran.r-project.org

Copyright (C) 2008 - 2009 Simon Urbanek

License: GPL-2

On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL-2 license is included
in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below:

  Package: multicore
  Version: 0.1-3
  Title: Parallel processing of R code on machines with multiple cores or
          CPUs
  Author: Simon Urbanek <Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org>
  Maintainer: Simon Urbanek <Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org>
  Depends: R (>= 2.0.0)
  Description: This package provides a way of running parallel
          computations in R on machines with multiple cores or CPUs. Jobs
          can share the entire initial workspace and it provides methods
          for results collection.
  License: GPL-2
  SystemRequirements: POSIX-compliant OS (essentially anything but
          Windows)
  OS_type: unix
  URL: http://www.rforge.net/multicore/
     
 



