[Rcpp-devel] FW: Installation issue for Rcpp_0.8.9 and Rcpp_0.9.0

[Douglas Bates]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Steve Moffitt <smoffitt at whtrading.com> wrote:
> My mail server didn't like the attached installation script - I've resent it with the script header removed.
> ________________________________________
> From: rcpp-devel-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org [rcpp-devel-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org] On Behalf Of Steve Moffitt [smoffitt at whtrading.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:35 PM
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> Subject: [Rcpp-devel] Installation issue for Rcpp_0.8.9 and Rcpp_0.9.0
>
> First, is this an appropriate way to report issues with Rcpp and RInside?
>
> Second, I'd like to commend all developers for your fine work in supporting the R environment, especially through the Rcpp and RInside packages.
>
> I've updated both versions on an up-to-date Fedora Core 13 machine and they work quite well.
>
> I'm having some trouble, however, installing Rcpp in a production environment over which I have little control.  Here are the particulars.
>
> (1) I can build R-2.12.0 successfully on a Redhat 5.0 platform with a bash shell (Linux quant1 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri Oct 29 14:21:16 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) using gcc/g++ v.4.1.2.  The build succeeds; R launches successfully and I can installs packages using 'install.packages' or R CMD INSTALL.  An installation script 'installR.ksh'  is attached - it succeeds up to the point when R CMD INSTALL attempts to install Rcpp.  Note that R-2.12.0 is installed in a directory ~/prod/thirdparty/R/R-2,12,0 and that I intended to install packages into ~/prod/thirdparty/R/R-2,12,0/library.
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> (2) I can install packages 'chron', 'dateTime' and 'timeSeries' from gzipped source or from the command line.  (The machine's firewall prevents me from installing via the web.) I haven't tried installing other packages since I don't need them at this time.
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> (3) I've spent several days trying unsuccessfully to install Rcpp_0.8.9 and Rcpp_0.9.0 by reading the 'R Installation and Administration' and 'Writing R Extensions' docs to determine if I've installed incorrectly.   Rcpp build output is attached, generated from a command line invocation of 'install.packages'. I determined that everything works as it should (targets built, etc.) up to the 'dyn.load' test.  There the installation fails when it can't locate the (mangled) symbol '_ZTVN10__cxxabiv120__si_class_type_infoE'.
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> (4) The same error occurs when I attempt to install using 'R CMD INSTALL'.
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> Can you advise?  Thanks in advance.

I think the problem is in your configuration of R.  You may be able to
use gcc to compile C++ source code (although it does get confused, as
exhibited by the error messages from the compilation of Data.cpp) but
it won't link with the C++ libraries properly.

On most Linux systems

R CMD config CXX

should return g++, not gcc

I think you will need to do the configuration of R again.  I don't
know much about the Red Hat family of distributions but is there a
precompiled binary from CRAN that you could use instead of compiling
yourself?