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...e using the C++ Boost | >library within an R package, and how portable was the resulting package. Packages are perfectly portable as that is a main goal of Boost. So in that sense the question is misdirected; few things are as 'portable' as Boost. The issue is more about how to ensure _binary libraries_ are found if needed for linking. Boost itself is a (vast) collection of libraries (in the abstract sense of 'packages'), and only a few employ (binary) libraries. Many can be used in a pure template sense so that only headers are needed at compile time. That is what Jay refers...

Hi, For the past week, I have been trying to figure out the best way to do package management with Puppet on an Ubuntu system. I have studied many solutons I found on the web, but none of them seem to do exactly what I want. Among other things, I have tried everything that is discussed here: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/af7349171a5821a4/db96b809c97f6006 but