freebsd-ports/devel/root-doc/pkg-descr
Pav Lucistnik 2bb5ba70d0 - Update to 5.02
- Take maintainership

PR:		ports/84013
Submitted by:	Simon Lang <simon@lang-clan.de>
2005-07-27 15:50:39 +00:00

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This package contains HTML documentation for the Root framework.
The installed package is 110 MB large.
ROOT stand for "<R>OOTs <O>bject-<O>riented <T>echnologies" - it is an object
oriented data anlaysis framework written in C++. ROOT has its origin at the
Centre Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN) and is a cross platform
tool well-known to high energy physicists, but it's also used in a wide range
of other data analysis applications. The system consists of the C/C++
interpreter CINT (for interactive development and rapid prototyping) and
hundreds of classes, which provides functionalities u.a. for:
- Data Histogram and Minimization Operations
- Linear Algebra, Matrix and Vector Operations
- Tree, Ntuple and other Data Containers/Stuctures
- 2D Graphics, 3D Graphics and Detector Geometry Modeling
- Graphical User Interface
- Operating System and Networking Interface
- Inline Documentation and PostScript Interface
- PROOF Server (parallel computing)
WWW: http://root.cern.ch/