The "distrXXX"-Family of R-Packages 

Project distr is an umbrella project which contains all the packages of the "distrXXX"-family. These in return are all based on package "distr". This family currently comprises the packages

• distr
  
• distrEx
  
• distrEllipse
  
• distrSim
  
• distrTEst
  
• distrDoc
  
• distrMod
• distrTeach

It also contains packages startupmsg and SweaveListingUtils
Besides the packages the project also contains the following folders

• pkg/Mail
  this folder contains important mails sent to Mailing lists R-devel and R-packages
  
• pkg/utils contains
  
• some utility R-functions for package development under Windows
  --- see README-R-utils 
• some utility batch files for building packages under various versions of R under Windows
  --- see README-batchfiles

Also the informative (non-formatted ASCII-)-Files

• NEWS [a global, detailed NEWS for the whole distrXXX project for developpers upto version 2.0]
  
• WISHLIST (in German in parts)
• TOBEDONE-PROJEKTE (in German in parts)

should be interesting.