I have a R package that i need to use. The package in question is [BQuant](http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~ovitek/BQuant-Web/index.htm).

The package is downloadable as a [zip file](http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~ovitek/BQuant-Web/BQuant/BQuant_1.0.zip) which (I found out later) contains windows binaries. First I tried to extract these binaries and pack it in .tar.gz And i installed the .tar.gz package using install.packages().

This didn't give any error but when i tried to call any function of the package R gave me the error: `Error: could not find function <function_name>`.

So then i found the [source files](http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~ovitek/BQuant-Web/BQuant/BQuant_1.0_Source.zip) and tried extracting and repacking in .tar.gz. This time, during the installation the error was: `**ERROR: Windows-only package**`

When i checked the description in the [source files](http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~ovitek/BQuant-Web/BQuant/BQuant_1.0_Source.zip) it said `OS_type: windows`. I removed that line and tried again. This time the error was:

```
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o BQuant.so dp.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
dp.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make:  ***[BQuant.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘BQuant’

```

So in brief:
 **I need to know whether this windows package can be installed in Linux.**