Issue with Installing R packages on R server

[ArpitJainGrab]

Hi Hadley,

I have an AWS EMR server (with CentOS 7 as its OS). I want to run R scripts on it.

After installing R, when I tried installing R packages, in most cases I was getting the following errors in the results.

1. Error in .shlib_internal(args) :
   C++11 standard requested but CXX11 is not defined
2. installation of package 'lubridate' had non-zero exit status

Some sources said there is an issue with CentOS 7 (the Server OS), and the gcc compiler in it, but am not sure how to fix it. Please help me.

Best Regards,
Arpit Jain

[vspinu]

You need gcc 4.8+. See #601. That's the requirement from CCTZ which we really need to push things forward.

[ArpitJainGrab]

gcc (GCC) 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9) installed,
but am still getting the same error

C++11 standard requested but CXX11 is not defined.

Not sure what to do next.

[vspinu]

Strange. A cursory search shows that C++11 works on gcc4.8.1. So looks like some local issue. What is the full output of the instalation? Are you sure R picks the right compiler? Do you see -std=c++11 in the compilation command?

I haven't tried 4.8 myself. I picked that number from the description of rcppcctz. Lubridate uses a smaller subset of cctz, so whatever works for them should work for lubridate as well. Could you try and install rcppcctz to see if it works?