v0.12.6 fails to compile on CentOS 6.8 "expected initializer before ‘stop’"

[IyadKandalaft]

CRAN source package v0.12.6 fails to compile on CentOS 6.8 but v0.12.5 compiles fine.

* installing *source* package ‘Rcpp’ ...
** package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
g++ -I/opt/R/R3/3.1.3/lib64/R/include -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/ -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2  -c Date.cpp -o Date.o
In file included from ../inst/include/RcppCommon.h:122,
                 from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:27,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:267: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:272: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:277: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:282: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:287: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:292: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:297: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:302: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:307: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:312: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:317: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
In file included from ../inst/include/Rcpp/Vector.h:56,
                 from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:38,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/utils/tinyformat.h: In member function ‘Rcpp::internal::DimNameProxy& Rcpp::internal::DimNameProxy::assign(SEXPREC*)’:
../inst/include/Rcpp/utils/tinyformat.h:127: error: too many arguments to function ‘void Rcpp::stop(const std::string&)’
../inst/include/Rcpp/vector/DimNameProxy.h:43: error: at this point in file
In file included from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:47,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/utils/tinyformat.h: In constructor ‘Rcpp::Function_Impl<StoragePolicy>::Function_Impl(const std::string&, const std::string&)’:
../inst/include/Rcpp/utils/tinyformat.h:127: error: too many arguments to function ‘void Rcpp::stop(const std::string&)’
../inst/include/Rcpp/Function.h:72: error: at this point in file
make: *** [Date.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Rcpp’
* removing ‘/home/vagrant/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.1/Rcpp’
* restoring previous ‘/home/vagrant/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.1/Rcpp’

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpaYpuI9/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("Rcpp") :
  installation of package ‘Rcpp’ had non-zero exit status
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[eddelbuettel]

Please look at issue #538 which I just closed 5 minutes ago.

[eddelbuettel]

For reference, this is discussed in #512 (with reference to the drat repo), #516, #519, #520 and now #538.

You want these two commits if you do it by hand:

• a2e45fa,
• 3dea272

My recommendation, however, is to use the Rcpp drat repo to access the interim release 0.12.6.1 which is just the trusted 0.12.6 plus the fix to make it build on outdated R versions such as R 3.0.* or 3.1.*