[Rcpp-devel] installing Rcpp and working a compilation with C++

[Jeff Newmiller]

OT:

I think this action

>Edited all instances in source.list from ‘bionics’ to ‘trusty’ per
>recommendation from
>https://askubuntu.com/questions/0uris-in-your-sources-list>

was an ill-advised mis-interpretation of the solution you reference. The question was asked at a time when bionic did not exist, and the correct interpretation would be to first look for a solution referencing bionic or failing that to take the clue that the existing lines from yuhhour sources mention might need to mention all the trailing terms they pointed out after the distribution keyword... but they might not as these can change between distributions and over the life of a distro.

This is off-topic here... but you can really screw up your system with this mistake so I wanted to warn you and others reading this at least.

On October 31, 2018 4:06:53 AM PDT, Benjamin Levy <sporck at windstream.net> wrote:
>Hello.  Thanks for granting me privileges to ask a new-person question.
> With all respect and hopes for some help.  BSL
>
>I’m working with Dirk Eddelbuettel’s book and trying to conduct the
>first manual compilation with Rcpp (Listing 2.1).  I’m hitting a snag. 
>Here are the circumstances.  Perhaps the problem is my location of R in
>/usr/bin/ and the Rccp packages (and friends) in
>usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp?  I put the error message at the
>bottom, after the system-level detail.
>Operating system: 
>VMWare Ubuntu 18.04
>Software
>R (command line) 3.5.1 (it is functional); R is installed at /usr/bin/
>packages installed from CRAN: Rcpp, Rcpp11, RcppArmadillo, SPREDA,
>RUnit, inline, rbenchmark, RInside
>Installation location: /home/myDir/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/
>Visual Studio 1.28.2 with c++ and gcc (it is functional)
>Installed texlive-latex-extra at command line
>Edited all instances in source.list from ‘bionics’ to ‘trusty’ per
>recommendation from
>https://askubuntu.com/questions/496549/error-you-must-put-some-source-uris-in-your-sources-list
><https://askubuntu.com/questions/496549/error-you-must-put-some-source-uris-in-your-sources-list>
>
>Located in /etc/apt/
>Lines added/changed are:
>deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
><http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu> trusty main restricted #Added by
>software-properties
>deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
><http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/> trusty restricted main universe
>multiverse #Added by software-properties
>deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
><http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/> trusty-updates restricted main
>universe multiverse #Added by software-properties
>deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
><http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/> trusty-backports main restricted
>universe multiverse #Added by software-properties
>deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
><http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu> trusty-security restricted main
>universe multiverse #Added by software-properties
>Fibonacci code
>Located in /home/myDir/Documents/seamlessR/R examples/fibonacci.cpp
>Code snippet 
>int fibonacci( const int x){
>if(x == 0) return(0);
>if(x == 1) return(1);
>return(fibonacci(x-1) + fibonacci(x-2));
>}
>extern “C” SEXP fibWrapper(SEXP xs){
>int x = Rcpp::as<int>(as);
>int fib = fibonacci(x);
>return( Rcpp:wrap(fib));
>}
>Issued first command at Ubuntu terminal prompt from Listing 2.1
>sh> PKG_CXXFLAGS="-I/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include" \
>PKG_LIBS="-L/home/myDir/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/Rcpp/libs
>-lRcpp" \ R CMD SHLIB fibonacci.cpp
>Reply: bash:
>PKG_CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/local/lib/R/site-library[B/Rcpp/include: No such
>file or directory

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