$ pear info apd
About apd-0.4p2
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Provides
Package         apd
Summary         A full-featured engine-level profiler/debugger
Description     APD is a full-featured profiler/debugger that is
                loaded as a zend_extension. It aims to be an
                analog of C's gprof or Perl's Devel::DProf.
Release License PHP License
Maintainers     George Schlossnagle <george@omniti.com> (lead)
Version         0.4p2
Release Date    2002-11-25
Release State   stable
Release Notes   Fixed build for 4.3
Last Modified   2003-06-02

$ pear remote-info Math_Stats
Package details:
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Latest      0.9.0beta2
Installed   0.9.0beta2
Package     Math_Stats
License     PHP
Category    Math
Summary     Classes to calculate statistical parameters
Description Package to calculate statistical parameters of numerical arrays
            of data. The data can be in a simple numerical array, or in a
            cummulative numerical array. A cummulative array, has the value
            as the index and the number of repeats as the value for the
            array item, e.g. $data = array(3=>4, 2.3=>5, 1.25=>6, 0.5=>3).
            Nulls can be rejected, ignored or handled as zero values.