[Rcpp-devel] 'Symbol not found' error

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 October 2013 at 10:19, Noam Ross wrote:
| I am getting the following error when attempting to load a package built using
| Rcpp with Rstudio's build tools:
| 
| Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
|   unable to load shared object '/home/noamross/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/sodi/libs/sodi.so':
|   /home/noamross/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/sodi/libs/sodi.so: undefined symbol: _Z11print_statedR9statelistRSt14basic_ofstreamIcSt11char_traitsIcEERN4arma3MatIdEE
| 
| This appears to refer to my print_state function:
| 
| #include <fstream>
| #include <RcppArmadillo.h>
| #include "data_structures.h"
| 
| void print_state(double outtime, statelist &state, std::ofstream outfile, arma::mat &printmatrix) {
|   printmatrix.col(0).fill(outtime);
|   printmatrix.col(1) = arma::conv_to<arma::vec>::from(state.ID);
|   printmatrix.col(2) = state.X;
|   printmatrix.col(3) = state.Y;
|   printmatrix.col(4) = arma::conv_to<arma::vec>::from(state.S);
|   printmatrix.col(5) = arma::conv_to<arma::vec>::from(state.I);
|   arma::mat p = printmatrix(arma::span(0, state.treeindex), arma::span(0, 5));
|   p.save(outfile, arma::csv_ascii);
| }

[...]

| Any ideas where to hunt this down? Thanks!

I suspect this comes from your p.save() there.  Now some context:

- We are building package for use by R here. R Core says we cannot use
(direct) printf, std::cout, ... as it would interfere with R's buffered
input/output, eg Rprintf.

- A while back, Rcpp received a contributed patch implmenting Rcpp::Rcout
which 'catches' output and forwards it to R -- very elegant. We built on
that, and Conrad was kind enough to accomodate this in Armadillo by replacing
his use of std::cout etc with a #define which, when built as RcppArmadillo,
become Rcpp::Rcout.

So long story short: RcppArmadillo may not have all the i/o operations you
see in the Armadillo documentation.  Hence, I am afraid you may either have
to code around this restriction, or debug/extend it. Patches welcome.

Dirk


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