[Rcppoctave-user] unable to install RcppOctave (Octave 3.8 Linux)

[kam kammon]

Hi, I am trying to install Rcppoctave from R with install.packages('RcppOctave') without success.

My OS is Ubuntu 13.10. R version 3.0.2, Octave version 3.8.0 (Octave is compiled from source with prefix=/usr/local)

I have tried installing hdf5  with mpi (libhdf5-mpi-dev, libhdf5-openmpi-dev and libhdf5-openmpi-7 from repository ) and without mpi (libhdf5-dev and libhdf5-7 from repository) and in both cases RcppOctave would not install. 

When libgdf5 is installed with mpi the install log shows "/usr/include/H5public.h:63:20: fatal error: mpi.h: No such file or directory"  while without mpi it shows a different error. 


I am attaching the installation log for both instances for further investigations.

Not sure if this is relevant, but when hdf5 is installed with mpi Octave needs to be recompiled  with 

export  CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/mpi -DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX -DOMPI_SKIP_MPICXX"

Otherwise some octave-forge packages don't install.

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Error-installing-package-on-classdef-tip-td4658542.html#a4658460

Thanks,

Bernard
 		 	   		  
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