Rcpp package installation fails on armhf hardware, Debian Jessie R 3.1.1

[dashaub]

I'm getting an error when installing "Rcpp" on armhf hardware on R 3.1.1 in Debian Jessie.
Here is the sessionInfo()

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform: arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf (32-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=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=C             
 [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_3.1.1

and the installation error

> install.packages("Rcpp", method = "wget")
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--2016-07-24 19:21:05--  https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Rcpp_0.12.6.tar.gz
Resolving cloud.r-project.org (cloud.r-project.org)... 52.85.209.15, 52.85.209.128, 52.85.209.99, ...
Connecting to cloud.r-project.org (cloud.r-project.org)|52.85.209.15|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2415707 (2.3M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/RtmpKAyk73/downloaded_packages/Rcpp_0.12.6.tar.gz’

/tmp/RtmpKAyk73/dow 100%[=====================>]   2.30M  3.36MB/s   in 0.7s   

2016-07-24 19:21:06 (3.36 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/RtmpKAyk73/downloaded_packages/Rcpp_0.12.6.tar.gz’ saved [2415707/2415707]

* installing *source* package ‘Rcpp’ ...
** package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/     -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c Date.cpp -o Date.o
In file included from ../inst/include/RcppCommon.h:122:0,
                 from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:27,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:267:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const std::string& message) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:272:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:277:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:282:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, con
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:287:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, con
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:292:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, con
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:297:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, con
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:302:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, con
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:307:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, con
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:312:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, con
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:317:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, con
                       ^
In file included from ../inst/include/Rcpp/Vector.h:56:0,
                 from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:38,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/vector/DimNameProxy.h: In member function ‘Rcpp::internal::DimNameProxy& Rcpp::internal::DimNameProxy::assign(SEXP)’:
../inst/include/Rcpp/vector/DimNameProxy.h:43:121: error: too many arguments to function ‘void Rcpp::stop(const string&)’
 is '%d' while length of names is '%d'", INTEGER(dims)[dim_], Rf_length(other));
                                                                              ^
In file included from ../inst/include/RcppCommon.h:70:0,
                 from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:27,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/utils/tinyformat.h:127:10: note: declared here
     void stop(const std::string& message);
          ^
In file included from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:47:0,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/Function.h: In constructor ‘Rcpp::Function_Impl<StoragePolicy>::Function_Impl(const string&, const string&)’:
../inst/include/Rcpp/Function.h:72:63: error: too many arguments to function ‘void Rcpp::stop(const string&)’
                 stop("there is no namespace called \"%s\"", ns);
                                                               ^
In file included from ../inst/include/RcppCommon.h:70:0,
                 from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:27,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/utils/tinyformat.h:127:10: note: declared here
     void stop(const std::string& message);
          ^
/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:137: recipe for target 'Date.o' failed
make: *** [Date.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Rcpp’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp’

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpKAyk73/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("Rcpp", method = "wget") :
  installation of package ‘Rcpp’ had non-zero exit status

[eddelbuettel]

That one may for once almost be better as a Debian bug report then... Checking the builder logs I see no issue with armhf and successful build.

Looking more closely at your report, I recognise it is an intersection of i) us being sloppy and ii) you using an outdated R version.

The good news is that this has been fixed already in #512. You can either use Rcpp from the master branch, or install the updated source from the Rcpp drat.

[dashaub]

@eddelbuettel Thanks Dirk!