failed to install RcppParallel on the Ubuntu 18.04 for the RcppParallel.h file cannot be found

[xning]

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
kernel: 4.15.0-44-generic
R: 3.5.2

Only installed r-base-core and r-base-dev from the cloud.r-project.org apt repo. After that, installed ggplot2 package successfully. While installing RcppParallel ，I saw following msg:

foundpkgs: RcppParallel, /tmp/RtmphvklZD/downloaded_packages/RcppParallel_4.4.2.tar.gz
files: /tmp/RtmphvklZD/downloaded_packages/RcppParallel_4.4.2.tar.gz

• installing source package ‘RcppParallel’ ...
  ** package ‘RcppParallel’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** preparing to configure package 'RcppParallel' ...
  ** finished configure for package 'RcppParallel'
  ** libs
  g++ -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-i39faS/r-base-3.5.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c init.cpp -o init.o
  g++ -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-i39faS/r-base-3.5.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c options.cpp -o options.o
  options.cpp:2:10: fatal error: RcppParallel.h: No such file or directory
  #include <RcppParallel.h>
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
  /usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:171: recipe for target 'options.o' failed
  make: *** [options.o] Error 1
  ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RcppParallel’
• removing ‘/home/nerd/.R/lib/RcppParallel’

The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmphvklZD/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages(pkgs = c("RcppParallel"), dependencies = TRUE, :
installation of package ‘RcppParallel’ had non-zero exit status

[eddelbuettel]

The file RcppParallel.h is in inst/include for the package, and there should be a compiler include -I../inst/include -- ie here is what I get

[...]
g++ -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG     -std=gnu++11 -I../inst/include/ -DRCPP_PARALLEL_USE_TBB=1 -fpic  -g -O3 -Wall -pipe -DBOOST_NO_AUTO_PTR -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-parentheses -Wno-maybe-uninitialized  -march=native -c init.cpp -o init.o
g++ -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG     -std=gnu++11 -I../inst/include/ -DRCPP_PARALLEL_USE_TBB=1 -fpic  -g -O3 -Wall -pipe -DBOOST_NO_AUTO_PTR -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-parentheses -Wno-maybe-uninitialized  -march=native -c options.cpp -o options.o
g++ -Wl,-S -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o RcppParallel.so init.o options.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR

Notice the -I../inst/include/.

Do you have anything unusual in your .Rprofile or .R/Makevars or other settings?

Also, src/Makevars.in starts with PKG_CXXFLAGS += @CXX11STD@ -I../inst/include/ so it is hard for me to see how this could go wrong for you. But it is a big package. Maybe @kevinushey has an idea...

[eddelbuettel]

Also, to bypass the issue, you can install a binary version from here: https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/c2d4u3.5?field.series_filter=bionic.

[xning]

@eddelbuettel

Thanks a lot. Installed the package successfully after removing the the .Rprofile file.

[bbucior]

Adding a note about another potential workaround. I ran into a similar issue but was successful in installing a download from CRAN via:

R CMD INSTALL --use-vanilla RcppParallel_5.1.5.tar.gz

Something in my R installation was not running the package's configure step (so PKG_CPPFLAGS never got defined). Using the workaround, the installation log now reports finding src/Makevars.in:

** package ‘RcppParallel’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** preparing to configure package 'RcppParallel' ...
*** configured file: 'src/Makevars.in' => 'src/Makevars'
** finished configure for package 'RcppParallel'