[Rcpp-devel] Unable to install RcppArmadillo from CRAN or from SVN archive on Ubuntu 10.10

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Doug,

We're in the middle of our Rcpp workshop so this is timely :)

On 28 April 2011 at 14:53, Douglas Bates wrote:
| I have been facing this problem for months now and I still don't know
| why other users of Ubuntu 10.10 using
| 
| $ g++ --version
| g++ (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5
| Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
| warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
| 
| can install RcppArmadillo and I can't.  Most recently I tried to
| install the source package from CRAN and got the same error as I have
| been getting for months.
| 
| 
| > install.packages("RcppArmadillo", repos="http://cran.fhcrc.org")
| Installing package(s) into ‘/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13’
| (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
| trying URL 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/RcppArmadillo_0.2.19.tar.gz'
| Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 259638 bytes (253 Kb)
| opened URL
| ==================================================
| downloaded 253 Kb
| 
| * installing *source* package ‘RcppArmadillo’ ...
| ** libs
| ccache g++ -I/usr/share/R/include
| -I"/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/Rcpp/include"
| -I../inst/include -fpic  -g -Wall -pipe -pedantic -c RcppArmadillo.cpp
| -o RcppArmadillo.o
| ccache g++ -I/usr/share/R/include
| -I"/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/Rcpp/include"
| -I../inst/include -fpic  -g -Wall -pipe -pedantic -c fastLm.cpp -o
| fastLm.o
| g++ -shared -o RcppArmadillo.so RcppArmadillo.o fastLm.o
| -L/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/Rcpp/lib -lRcpp
| -Wl,-rpath,/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/Rcpp/lib
| -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lR
| installing to /home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RcppArmadillo/libs
| ** R
| ** inst
| ** preparing package for lazy loading
| ** help
| *** installing help indices
| ** building package indices ...
| ** testing if installed package can be loaded
| Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
|   unable to load shared object
| '/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RcppArmadillo/libs/RcppArmadillo.so':
|   /home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RcppArmadillo/libs/RcppArmadillo.so:
| undefined symbol: _ZN4arma12arma_version5majorE

You know, Jan has the exact same issue and I blamed the Mac.  Maybe the
difference is having Armadillo or not.  This all works on my box, so could
you just install Ubuntu's armadillo package?

It still works for me ... and that may be a part of the changes.

Cheers from a seminar room at UIC,   Dirk

| Error: loading failed
| Execution halted
| ERROR: loading failed
| * removing ‘/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RcppArmadillo’
| * restoring previous
| ‘/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RcppArmadillo’
| 
| The downloaded packages are in
| 	‘/tmp/RtmpoJ3I0u/downloaded_packages’
| Warning message:
| In install.packages("RcppArmadillo", repos = "http://cran.fhcrc.org") :
|   installation of package 'RcppArmadillo' had non-zero exit status
| > sessionInfo()
| R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
| Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
| 
| locale:
|  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
|  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
|  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
|  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
|  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
| [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
| 
| attached base packages:
| [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
| 
| loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
| [1] tools_2.13.0
| 
| 
| The version of the source file RcppArmadillo/src/RcppArmadillo.cpp
| that I have (SVN version 3012 for the file - the source code package
| is at SVN version 3023) does indeed use arma::version::major,
| arma::version:minor and arma::version::patch but they aren't defined
| any place that I can see.
| 
| What am I missing here?
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