install.packages -> buildHDBSCAN.cpp(45): error

[jake-stone]

I can install dbscan on my laptop, no problem.
But it is not installing on a linux cluster I use for big data.
I have tried with R 3.3.3 and 3.4.0. I get the same error after invoking

install.packages("dbscan")

Error Message:

buildHDBSCAN.cpp(45): error: more than one operator "==" matches these operands:
        built-in operator "pointer == pointer"
        function "Rcpp::operator==(Rcpp::Na_Proxy, SEXP)"
        operand types are: Rcpp::internal::generic_name_proxy<19> == SEXP
if (!hcl.containsElementNamed("labels") || hcl["labels"] == R_NilValue){
                                                         ^

compilation aborted for buildHDBSCAN.cpp (code 2)
make: *** 


[/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/avx2 /Compiler/intel2016.4/r/3.3.3/lib64/R/etc/Makeconf:141: buildHDBSCAN.o] Error 2
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘dbscan’
 removing ‘/home/xxxxxx/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/dbscan’

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpI1SJp8/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("dbscan") :
  installation of package ‘dbscan’ had non-zero exit status

[mhahsler]

Hmmm. Looking at the error message indicates that it is a Rcpp related problem. Do you have the latest version of Rcpp? Also do you have g++ with a minimal version of 4.2.* installed?

[jake-stone]

It's a research cluster, I've just moved in. Apparently the server I am on is brand new, but it seems that the c compilers are out of date.

I'm in touch with the support staff. Hopefully they can fix this. I am pretty convinced now that this is not dbscan related. It's an environment issue

[jake-stone]

and thank you for taking a look. Much appreciated.