Dirk Eddelbuettel, John W. Emerson and Michael J. Kane
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source 
 libraries.  A large part of Boost is provided as C++ template code
 which is resolved entirely at compile-time without linking.  This 
 package aims to provide the most useful subset of Boost libraries 
 for template use among CRAN package. By placing these libraries in 
 this package, we offer a more efficient distribution system for CRAN 
 as replication of this code in the sources of other packages is 
 avoided.

   As of release 1.60.0-2, the following Boost libraries are included:
 'algorithm' 'any' 'bimap' 'bind' 'circular_buffer' 'concept' 'config'
 'container' 'date'_'time' 'detail' 'dynamic_bitset' 'exception'
 'filesystem' 'flyweight' 'foreach' 'functional' 'fusion' 'geometry'
 'graph' 'heap' 'icl' 'integer' 'interprocess' 'intrusive' 'io'
 'iostreams' 'iterator' 'math' 'move' 'mpl' 'multiprcecision'
 'numeric' 'pending' 'phoenix' 'preprocessor' 'random' 'range'
 'smart_ptr' 'spirit' 'tuple' 'type_trains' 'typeof' 'unordered'
 'utility' 'uuid'.