[R] RQuantlib ?Windows Binary?

[Uwe Ligges]

Jason.L.Higbee at stls.frb.org wrote:

> R:
> 
> Is there a reason why there isn't a Windows Binary version of RQuantlib on 
> CRAN?  Usually when there is no binary, I just source the source code, but 
> this one appears to have various calls and methods and things like that so 
> I'm hesitant to do so.  I know there has been a big discussion on why 
> Rmetrics doesn't have source for unix/linux, but that isn't on CRAN. 
> Through that Rmetrics thread, I think I read that all CRAN packages have 
> source (except for one), but shouldn't all CRAN packages also have binary?

All CRAN packages *do* have a source version.
But *not* all CRAN packages have binaries.

See http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html 
what hapens to the package. hat page points you to 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.9/ReadMe

Uwe Ligges



>  Think they should.
> 
> Jason Higbee
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