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 1.69.0-1, the following Boost libraries are
 included: 'algorithm' 'align' 'any' 'atomic' 'bimap' 'bind'
 'circular_buffer' 'compute' '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'
 'propery_tree' 'random' 'range' 'scope_exit' 'smart_ptr' 'sort' 'spirit'
 'tuple' 'type_traits' 'typeof' 'unordered' 'utility' 'uuid'.