This package contains a collection of real-world datasets and
functions for creating artificial datasets that work as benchmarks for
machine learning methods.

Most datasets have been taken from the UCI repository at
    ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/machine-learning-databases
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html
origin and copyright notices are in the corresponding documentation
files. 

Everything else is Copyright (C) 1997 Friedrich Leisch and released
under the GNU General Public License, see the file COPYRIGHT for
details.

The current version is 0.1 as of June 9, 1997.

The latest version of this package can always be downloaded from the
URL
        ftp://ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at/pub/R/source/contrib

Please do not hesitate to send any comments or bug reports to one of
the authors.

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                         Friedrich  Leisch                             
 Institut fr Statistik                      Tel: (+43 1) 58801 4541
 Technische Universitt Wien                 Fax: (+43 1)  504 14 98
 Wiedner Hauptstrae 8-10/1071      Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at
 A-1040 Wien, Austria             http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch
      PGP public key http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/pgp.key
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