Bug#531096: ITP: r-cran-multicore -- GNU R packagefor parallel processing on multi-core machines

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

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

* Package name    : r-cran-multicore
  Version         : 0.1-3
  Upstream Author : Simon Urbanek
* URL or Web page : http://www.rforge.net/multicore/
* License         : GPL-2
  Description     : GNU R packagefor parallel processing on multi-core machines

This is a relatively new CRAN package for parallel processing on multi-core /
multi-cpu machines.

The suggested debian/control is below:

  Source: r-cran-multicore
  Section: gnu-r
  Priority: optional
  Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
  Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.0), r-base-dev (>= 2.9.0)
  Standards-Version: 3.8.1
  Homepage: http://www.rforge.net/multicore
  
  Package: r-cran-multicore
  Architecture: any
  Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.9.0), ${shlibs:Depends}
  Description: GNU R parallel processing on multi-core or multi-cpu machines
   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.

The suggested debian/copyright follows as well:

  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/
       
Dirk 




  
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