This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-boot package of boot, a collection of functions and datasets for bootstrapping from the book "Bootstrap Methods and Their Applications" by A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley (1997, CUP). The boot package was written by Angelo Canty. This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ and are also included in the (large) source tar archive of R itself at http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'boot' to 'r-cran-boot' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 1997-2008 A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley Portions Copyright (C) 1997-2008 Angelo J. Canty Portions Copyright (C) 1997-2008 Brian D. Ripley License: 'unlimited distribution'. (see e.g. R/bootfuns.q) For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION [with lines broken to 80 cols] file is included below: Package: boot Priority: recommended Version: 1.2-15 Date: 2003-10-22 Author: S original by Angelo Canty . R port by Brian Ripley . Maintainer: Brian Ripley Description: functions and datasets for bootstrapping from the book "Bootstrap Methods and Their Applications" by A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley (1997, CUP). Title: Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty) Depends: R (>= 1.8.0), survival License: Unlimited distribution. The file R/bootfuns.q contains the following header: # part of R package boot # copyright (C) 1997-2001 Angelo J. Canty # corrections (C) 1997-2007 B. D. Ripley # # Unlimited distribution is permitted