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+# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
+# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line
+# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|'
+# on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must
+# make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also
+# customary to leave one space after the ':'.
+
+ |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
R: R Statistical Programming Language <www.r-project.org>
-R:
+R:
R: R is a language and environment for statistical computing and
R: graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language
R: and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly
@@ -7,5 +15,5 @@ R: AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R
R: can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are
R: some important differences, but much code written for S runs
R: unaltered under R.
-R:
-R: Package built by Joel J. Adamson <sparrow1240@gmail.com>
+R:
+R: