Bug#759170: ITP: r-cran-e1071 -- GNU R package with miscellaneous functions of the Dept of Statisics (e1071)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : r-cran-e1071
  Version         : 1.6-3-1
  Upstream Author : David Meyer, Evgenia Dimitriadou, Kurt Hornik, Andreas Weingessel, and Friedrich Leisch.
* URL or Web page : http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/e1071/index.html
* License         : GPL-2
  Description     : GNU R package with miscellaneous functions of the Dept of Statisics (e1071)

This package is a Build-Depends: of RcmdrMisc (== r-cran-rcmdrmisc) which
itself is a Build-Depends of Rcmdr (== r-cran-cmdr) which is a package we had
in Debian for a decade.

e1071 is a stable package which reflects work by the authors when working in
the Dept of Statistics at TU Wien.  They have all moved on to different
departments/universities, and the package is in maintenance mode.

It includes a wrapper to libsvm which itself is BSD licensed and pretty
widely used within R via this package.

Dirk

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