[R] Installing RQuantLib on Win 7 64 Bit

[Mike Marchywka]

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> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:22:54 -0600
> To: santosh.srinivas at gmail.com
> From: edd at debian.org
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Installing RQuantLib on Win 7 64 Bit
>
>
> On 26 November 2010 at 07:05, Santosh Srinivas wrote:
> | Hello Group,
> |
> | I am trying out RQuantLib on a 64bit Win 7 machine. But running into
> | installation errors
>
> The error message is about as clear as it can get:
>
> | install.packages("RQuantLib")
> |
> | Warning in install.packages("RQuantLib") :
> | argument 'lib' is missing: using
> | 'C:\Users\Tester\Documents/R/win64-library/2.11'
> | Warning: unable to access index for repository
> | http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows64/contrib/2.11
> | Warning message:
> | In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
> | package ‘RQuantLib’ is not available
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> There is your answer: there simply is no binary package.
>
> I need a win64 development box (which I currently do not have) to build
> QuantLib as a win64 library so that CRAN and R-Forge can turn the RQuantLib
> source into a binary for you.
>

How bad are things getting? LOL. Seriously though, can anyone such as OP
or I download source, build, install, and contrib it back? 
Up until recently I had been building all the packages from source
but one failed to install and now I just use install.package as was
attempted here. I've been building on cygwin 1.7.